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THE 


BOLSHEVISM 
OF SEX 

Femininity and Feminism 

By 

FERNAND J. J. MERCKX 


It is the imprescriptible right of each and 
every man to obtain as his bride, a maiden,— 
beautiful and healthy, intelligent and modest,— 
one who will be a real wife to him, because such 
a wife is the fundamental element in the attain- 
ment of his happiness. That right supersedes any 
need that private interests or public organizations 
may have for human labor. The institutions of 
the country owe Kim, as a duty, facilitation of 
the exercise of this right by all a * ‘ „ 

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THE BOLSHEVISM OF SEX 

Femininity and Feminism 

By 

F. J. J. MERCKX 


CONTENTS 

Page 

Preamble.5 

The Spirit of Bolshevism .7 

PART I. 

THE PROBLEM. 

Chapter I. Individualism Applied to the Woman, 

or Feminism.9 

Chapter II. Humanity and its Ends.12 

PART II. 

THE WOMAN. 

Chapter I. The Woman as an Entity . . . . 15 

Chapter II. The Woman as compared with Man 16 

Chapter III. Sexuality.21 

Chapter IV. Mentality.24 

PART III. 

THE NATURAL LAWS OF MANKIND IN 
REGARD TO THE WOMAN. 

Chapter I. The Law of Preservation of the 

Individual.32 

Chapter II. Maidenhood. . . 34 

Chapter III. Wifehood.36 

Chapter IV. Motherhood.51 

Chapter V. Sexual Respect.56 

Chapter VI. The Woman and the Natural Law of 

Perpetuation of the Race .... 59 

Chapter VII. Summary of Parts II and III . 63 













PART IV. 

THE WOMAN IN THE FAMILY. 

Page 

Chapter I. The Home.65 

Chapter II. The Home-Maker.69 

Chapter III. Family Morality.72 

Chapter IV. The Family Unit and the Functions of 

its Members.79 

Chapter V. The Family Unit, the Nation and the 

State.84 

PART V. 

THE WOMAN IN PUBLIC LIFE. 

Chapter I. The Woman's Career.91 

Chapter II. Political Rights and the Woman . . 96 

Chapter III. The Woman in Administrative 

Positions .105 

Chapter IV. Woman’s Independence .... 107 

Chapter V. The Woman’s Work and its Connec¬ 
tion with Domestic and Political 
Economy.115 

PART VI. 

WOMANHOOD AND CIVILIZATION. 

Chapter I. The Higher Woman.126 

Chapter II. The Education of the Girl .... 137 

Chapter III. War and the Woman.148 

PART VII. 

THE FEMINIST EVIL: A Few Confessions 157 

PART VIII. 

CONCLUSION.194 

THE ANSWER.202 

APPENDIX: An Answer to Some Critics . . . 204 

The End. 










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PLEASE do not read this book expecting to find in it 
some startling theories, which are either boldly asserted 
sophisms, or simple truth cleverly disguised. 

The TRUTH always is simple when clearly conceived, 
and my work has merely been to arrange, according to a 
certain order, principles that belong to common knowledge, 
facts that can be probed easily, and to draw from them 
conclusions for which your observation of society and your 
own experience will bear testimony. 


THE AUTHOR. 



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THE SPIRIT OF BOLSHEVISM. 

Bolshevism, although a new word stands for an old thing. 

To our minds it represents theft and confiscation, slaughter 
and cruelty, degradation of womanhood and perversion of 
children. 

These disorders are but symptoms of a peculiar state of 
mind. The same mentality was found in the Revolt of the 
Mercenaries in Carthage, in the Revolt of the Roman slaves 
under the leadership of the Gallic Vindex. It was patent in 
the French Revolution of 1793. It appeared in the Indian 
War. It was evident in the Commune of Paris in 1871 and it 
cannot be ignored in the recent outbreaks in Germany. 

What brings about social unrest and strife is not a passing 
misfortune, or a temporary abuse,—it is the individual inability 
of great numbers of people to obtain, in given conditions, the 
realization of their aspirations. 

After they have tried to reach their rightful aims and have 
failed, they attribute their disappointment to existing conditions 
rather than to their own incapacity. Therefore discontent and 
hate ferment against a supposedly wrong social order, or al¬ 
legedly guilty people; envy grows against more favored fellow 
creatures, and the diseased mind of the abnormal becomes a 
public danger. 

Through the influence of repeated propaganda, normal 
people become infected by doubt and suffer from imaginary 


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wrongs. Led astray by this delusion, which harms them, they 
join the ranks of the rebels, where they are paraded as testi¬ 
monies of the justness of the cause. 

The acts of such mentally deficient people are individual 
violations of law and custom, but when social parasites find 
in these forces of misery and waywardness a tool strong enough 
to overthrow or modify the social order for their personal bene¬ 
fit, they claim rights for abnormality and set up insanity as the 
standard by which the rest of humanity should be modeled. 

Has the social problem of the sexes developed along the 
same lines ? This is a question the Reader himself will answer 
when he has read this book. 


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THE BOLSHEVISM OF SEX 
PART I. 

THE PROBLEM. 

CHAPTER I. 

Individualism Applied to the Woman, or Feminism. 

It is plainly evident to anyone who is not blinded by the 
fear of thinking or by personal interests, that the whole of the 
western civilization is craving for a new social order which is 
already in process of evolution. 

In international relations, the nations recently took keen 
interest in principles of universal justice,—once more solemnly 
proclaimed but not observed. The people wanted to be in- 
formed of the negotiations carried on, in order to pass judgment 
on these propositions and express their views, presaging by this 
awakening the time when treaties will become the expression of 
the needs of each nation coordinated with the rights of her 
sister nations. 

In internal politics, the people tire of partisan mountebanks 
who manage the State for the greatest benefit of their masters 
and confederates. 

In business less drastic separation manifests itself between 
employer and employee by the granting of bonuses and by the 
participation of both in the profits of the enterprise. These 
are unconscious steps toward collectivism, a mild form of 
socialism. 


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The social order is not less disrupted than the political and 
business worlds. 

Throughout the entire social structure—which hitherto was 
based upon interdependence of persons,—individualism asserts 
itself. 

Individuals confer upon themselves authority to impose 
upon the nation laws which the people repudiate. Individuals 
use their official character to substitute their personal will to 
that of the nation, while other individuals contest the principle 
of constituted authority. 

Individualism in the Church has so well progressed since 
the Reformation that nowadays you find in every street a few 
Churches of different creeds. 

Individualism has also pervaded the family life, tending 
toward the wife’s independence of her husband and the child’s 
independence of its parents, and this has found its most com¬ 
plete realization in Soviet Russia. 

But at the same time that individualism severs the social 
bonds between individuals, leaving mankind an ensemble of 
independent entities, the influence or authority that nature, 
social position or capacity gave to some individuals is absorbed 
by the State. The latter, possessed by the same spirit of in¬ 
dividualism, takes upon itself, as an administration or bureau¬ 
cracy, to decide what is good or what is bad for the people. 
This tutelage, under any form of Government, develops into 
State despotism by the enactment of laws enforcing morality 
or prescribing ways of thinking. 

General principles, such as determine the individualistic 
tendency, cannot altogether be proclaimed as paramount, or be 
condemned as wrong as a whole, for they are right when ap¬ 
plied to objects the nature of which can reap benefits through 
their adoption, and they are wrong when they nullify the 
natural qualities or hamper the purposes of the object. 

Feminism, which passed the joking stage three years ago, 
and has, to a certain extent, won recognition in some countries, 


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is a form of individualism as applied to woman. This particu¬ 
lar expression of individualism affects human society pro¬ 
foundly because it touches the everyday life of the human being 
in its most essential functions. 

Feminism is becoming, or even has become in certain parts 
of the world, a concrete fact, a social experiment brought into 
play in a tentative reconstruction of the social order. Feminism 
has thus grown into a social problem on which a definite and 
final stand has to be taken, after a careful philosophical analy¬ 
sis of its principles has been made. 

Numerous studies of this question have been published, 
some of very great value, but most of them, and such is 
especially the case in magazine and newspaper articles, take up 
one particular aspect of the problem and propose for the evil 
discovered some artificial remedy which does not cure the 
social illness but very often perpetuates it under some legal 
“bandage/’ This method offers to politicians excellent ground 
for their performances, but aggravates the disease and misleads 
public opinion. 

The task we set upon ourself is thus not to give the opinion 
of one or another person prominent in this or that world, but 
to find by the cartesian method what is to be accepted or 
rejected in the feminist theory. 

To reach a well founded conclusion, we have to study the 
question from its very cause itself,—The Woman. Before 
giving rights and powers to the woman, we have to know what 
a woman is, what are her natural laws and what are her 
functions in human society,—and from them to conclude her 
rights and duties. 

This study will lead us to uncover what is good and what 
is bad in modern social life, and will determine the rules im¬ 
posed by nature upon men toward women in order to make 
their intercourse beneficial to humanity as a whole. 


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CHAPTER II. 

Humanity and Its Ends. 

It is a matter of fact that mankind is made up of man and 
woman and that, although he or she may be perfect in his or 
her entity, neither of them can be complete, the one without 
the other. Stop, lessen or modify the natural intercourse be¬ 
tween men and women and in fifty years the human race will 
be found to be sterilized, and in less than a century the human 
race itself will have utterly vanished from earth. So man and 
woman complete each other, and each one needs the other to 
come into full development as a human being, and both of 
them are equally indispensable to the perpetuation of the race. 

The full development of the human being as an entity is 
obtained by the working of natural functions, and is helped 
in its social requirements by general education. All activities 
of the human being as an individual, and of humanity as a 
whole, tend to the ultimate purpose of personal and general 
welfare. It is to that end that people work, assume cares, 
suffer, sacrifice themselves and wage wars. If one accepts a 
burden or a pain, it is only for the purpose of securing a 
benefit or avoiding a greater misfortune. Personal benefit com¬ 
prehends everything that contributes to the satisfaction of 
men,—physically, mentally or intellectually. This propensity, 
universal amongst men and constituting the motive power of 
their actions, is termed: The Natural Law of Preservation 
of the Individual. 

It is a common saying that the human race is perpetuated 
by procreation,—but it may not be altogether useless to em¬ 
phasize that procreation, which is a general desire of man and 
woman, which is a natural consequence of their full develop¬ 
ment and intercourse, must be admitted as a universal need of 


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humanity and termed one of its laws: The Law of Perpetua¬ 
tion of the Species. 

All the struggles of life center in these two laws,—the first 
relating to the welfare of the individual, the second to the 
welfare of humanity,—and the obeying of them requires of 
man and woman an intimate and constant collaboration of 
which nature herself has decreed the proper rules. 

Let us recall here, that any being acting against its natural 
laws, destroys itself or undergoes such changes as to suppress 
the normal working of its natural faculties. Some may believe 
that they create new faculties by using stratagem, but it is good 
to remember that a function never has created an organ, for the 
function is impossible without the organ to produce it. This 
so-called creation of an organ, is a mere adaptation or even 
a simple case of atrophy of some organ. By adaptation and 
atrophy the faculties of the animated being are diminished; 
so adaptation of the stomach to certain kinds of food, besides 
the annoyance it causes in daily life, surfeits the body with 
some particular elements while impoverishing it of some other 
needed material; and atrophy of tactile sensibility, which may 
seem beneficial by suppressing painful contacts, deprives the 
afflicted person of the warning of danger. Professional adapt¬ 
ations which direct activities and strength toward a given work 
are generally accompanied by deficiency of less used faculties: 
you cannot make a poet of an old accountant, or an intellectual 
of a prize-fighter. 

Organs are improved through accommodation or versatile 
working ability in most varied circumstances, that is to say the 
existing organs are completely efficient to perform all their func¬ 
tions; beyond that point no perfection can be attained, the 
nature of things limiting their possibilities. The fish must be 
kept in the water and the rabbit on the land if you want them 
to live. You must feed the lion on meat and the sheep on grass 
if you want them to keep their health and the qualities that fit 
them into the universal order, for such are their natural laws. 


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This little digression aims only to keep in mind that 
observance of their natural laws is supreme for all animate 
beings, and that no transgression of these laws may be regarded 
as a trifling matter, for each violation brings a fatal detriment 
to some of the personal faculties of the individual and, in con¬ 
sequence, to his own welfare and to his co-operation in the 
welfare of the race. 

So we see that the foundation of human activities must be 
the natural laws of man unless humanity wants to destroy it¬ 
self, and that our task will be mainly to consider the woman in 
relation to the natural laws of humanity. Afterward we will 
have to find her proper place in civilized society in relation to 
these laws. 

In order to determine in what particular way the natural 
laws of the human being apply to the woman, it is necessary first 
to consider her as an entity; then as compared to man. This 
will enable us to bring forth what is meant by full development 
of woman’s faculties, and what is included in this development. 


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PART II. 

THE WOMAN. 

CHAPTER I. 

The Woman as an Entity. 

If you consider the woman as an entity, you find in her of 
course, the same qualifications as those in man excepting the 
distinctions pertaining to sex, because she is of the same nature, 
an offspring of the same stem. 

Zoologists will tell you that she is the female of a feather¬ 
less plantigrade biped mammal of the genus homo, but we 
know that she is an intelligent, conscious, voluntary being, un¬ 
questionably entitled to the universal right to pursue and secure 
happiness. Yet, so general a definition would give us only a 
vague understanding of her, of little use in this particular 
study, for none can dispute her privileges as a human being. 
It is only by a fair comparison of woman with man that we 
will be able to grasp accurately the woman’s special constitution 
under its different aspects. 


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CHAPTER II. 

The Woman, as Compared with Man. 

Although a woman possesses nearly the same qualifications 
as a man, it has been demonstrated by the physiologist that 
every part of her tissues and organs have characteristic dif¬ 
ferences from those of a man. 

Physically, a woman is shorter than a man in the ratio 
of 16 to 17 ; she is lighter by one-tenth; she has smaller muscles 
and her dynamometric strength is only about two-thirds that 
of a man. In this we find the reason why the average woman 
is weaker than the average man. 

Her bones being thinner and of less specific gravity than 
those of a man, her osseous frame being weaker, she is more 
easily subject to deformations consequent on burdens carried 
constantly in the same manner, or poses maintained for a cer¬ 
tain length of time. Her trunk is longer. The effects of the 
pelvic bend make her less erect, which induces her to wear a 
corset; her head is less upright, her gait less steady and her 
plantar arch flatter. 

Her hand is thinner with longer fingers, making it less strong 
than man’s hand, but at the same time more supple and more 
delicate in touch, more apt to handle small dainty things of 
little resistance. 

Her blood has fewer corpuscles than that of a man. Her 
pulse beats faster. She is more inclined to fatness, more sus¬ 
ceptible to disease, but because small reactions produce in her 
quicker effects, she is able to fight it better than a man. At 
any given age the mortality in the case of woman is less than 
in the case of man. 

Her skull is smaller, especially at the base; it forms a larger 
circumference at the crown; it is flatter and more angular than 


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a man's. Her forehead is more vertical. Her face is smaller 
and slightly prognatic. The glabella, the superorbital ridges, 
the occipital and mastoid prominences and the parietal promin¬ 
ence are less. The cranium, to a certain extent, moulds the 
brain. 


THE BRAIN. 

Before considering the difference between the brain of man 
and that of woman, it might be useful, in order to understand 
properly the following comparison, to recall summarily to the 
reader the functions of the nervous system, of which the brain 
is a part. 

The nervous system is the organ of sensibility, motion and 
mentation. Its main parts are the cerebrum, the cerebellum, 
the nerves, the spinal axis, and the great sympathetic system. 
The cerebrum is divided into two hemispheres which are them¬ 
selves divided into lobes. Experiments have established that 
the cortex or envelope of the brain contains the nerve centers, 
or places where sensations are received and impulses given out. 
So, the vision is localized in the occipital lobe, the hearing in 
the temporal lobe, the smell in the mesal surface of the tem¬ 
poral lobe. Movements of organs and muscles likewise are 
located in some determined parts of the cortex and the center 
of mentation is attributed to the frontal lobe. The cerebellum 
takes care of the combination of movements. The nerves 
and the spinal axis conduct the sensation to the brain and the 
movement from the brain to the muscles. The great sympathe¬ 
tic system, which commands all acts of vegetative life, is con¬ 
nected with the central nervous system by ganglia and is not 
under direct influence of will power, as are the motor nerves 
of the central nervous system. 

The absolute brain weight is greater in the higher races, 
even when the lower races are of heavier build. This 


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shows that the weight of the brain, in normal persons, is 
proportionate to the intellectual power of the subject. 

A survey of absolute brain weight amongst races would 
seem to be unfavorable to some women of the higher class,— 
the Anglo-Saxon women. Their brain-weight as compared to 
that of the Anglo-Saxon man is inferior by 160 grammes, while 
the difference between the Australian man-brain and woman- 
brain is only 101 grammes,—besides, the absolute brain-weight 
of the Anglo-Saxon woman is lower than that of the Australian 
man, which is nearly the lowest amongst men. 

From this it should not be inferred that the Anglo-Saxon 
woman is in any degree inferior to other races, mentally or in¬ 
tellectually, but it shows that the proportional weight of the 
man-brain and the woman-brain does not originate from a dif¬ 
ference in training and mental work of man and woman, but 
results from a decree of nature relating to sex. Let us remark 
that the same rule exists for the superior mammals, of which 
the female has a smaller head and lighter brain than the male. 
That the difference in brain-weight between man and woman 
is due to sex, is shown by the weighing of brains of children 
of like age. It must be admitted that children, boys and 
girls, up to about ten years of age, have nearly the same kind 
of living and activities, yet the difference in brain-weight in¬ 
creases gradually, giving constantly greater weight to the boy- 
brain over the girl-brain, even at a time when stature and ab¬ 
solute weight of the entire body are practically the same for 
boys and girls. 

The proportion of the various parts of the brain is to be 
considered in comparing the man-brain and woman-brain. 
According to Broca, the average weight of the different lobes 
of the brain of adults between the ages of 25 and 45 years is 
as follows: Frontal lobe, man, 502 grammes,—woman, 429 
grammes; Occipital lobe, man, 111 grammes,—woman 100 
grammes; Temporo-Parietal lobe, man, 552 grammes,—woman, 
482; which gives to the frontal lobe of the man-brain an excess 
of 73 grammes over the same part of woman-brain, and con- 


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sequently, a greater area and weight to the cortex in which are 
located the functions of mentation. Thus we see the reason 
why man should be capable of greater cerebral activity than 
woman; but it would be a wrong interpretation of the facts 
to conclude that, because of the lesser weight and area of the 
frontal lobe of the woman's brain, woman is less intelligent 
than man. There is no difference in the quality of intelligence,— 
man and woman thinking by the same process,—but there is in 
woman a less extended ability to exert her intellectual power 
by the reason that the effort bearing upon smaller parts of the 
brain fatigues it quicker than in the case of man. 

Beside the differences in the mass of the brain and its dis¬ 
tribution, there is a disparity in density of the grey matter of the 
man and woman brain: the density of the grey matter in all 
parts of the woman-brain is less than that in the man-brain. This 
explains why woman is less sensitive to pain, more obtuse in 
senses but also more affectable and more subject to nervous 
irritation. We may thus also understand that she works by 
intuitive feelings, that her sentiments have wider range and 
geater intensity. 

Scientists have observed in cases of starvation that the ner¬ 
vous system is, of all the organs, the least affected in its gross 
weight by the want of reconstructive elements, “and there is 
little doubt,” says Professor H. H. Donaldson, “that this 
weight is maintained at the expenses of the other organs.” This 
remark is corroborated by common observation among school 
children, especially among girls who overwork themselves 
in their studies, and become subject to physical and mental 
depression similar to that which actual starvation causes, and 
sometimes they weaken to such an extent that recovery be¬ 
comes impossible, the other organs, to which reconstruction 
work pertains, having suffered more than the nervous system 
itself in the slow increment of physiological misery. If the 
woman is subjected to the same strain of cerebral work as man, 
her brain, particularly the frontal lobe, wears out quicker, and 


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a more constant and active supply of blood is needed to carry 
away the waste substances and furnish fresh elements. The 
brain being first provided for, the rest of her organism fails to 
receive its proper share of reconstructive material, and we 
have to conclude that mental stimuli, beyond a certain limit, 
hamper the reconstruction of other parts of her body. 

So nature imposes upon woman shorter periods of cerebral 
activity under the penalty of physical poverty, and, ultimately, 
mental depression. 

This cerebral activity, as limited by fatigue, depends on the 
constitution of each individual, man or woman, and it is thus 
not possible to determine the absolute endurance of man and 
woman, but it is plain that the average man is favored over the 
average woman in his ability to sustain, without harm, the 
strain of intellectual activity. 

Furthermore, in the woman the sympathetic and ganglion- 
aire system is relatively more dominant than the cerebro-spinal, 
and her peculiar organs constitute a far larger part of her body 
than those of man, and these can be but greatly prejudiced by 
the over-rated claim of the brain in excessive mental work. 

The woman-brain, in the course of years, evolves less than 
the man-brain; it has more symmetry, the convolutions about 
the sylvian fissure are simpler, with fewer bends; the insula of 
Reil is smaller, less convex, simpler as is the third frontal girus 
so that the woman-brain is more like the child-brain, which 
may account for differences in general mentality which will be 
examined in their proper place. 

It may be useful to emphasize again that the conclusions 
just reached do not imply that the woman is less intelligent 
than the man, but that intellectually she is fitted differently than 
he is; that this diversity is not due to education or ways of 
living, but solely to her sexuality, and that from the very start 
of her procreation. 


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CHAPTER III. 

Sexuality. 

Woman is made beautiful in shape as a whole, and fitted 
in every part of her to attract and captivate the desire of man 
and gratify his senses: her hair is naturally longer and finer, 
giving her a glory out of which a fine and delicate face appears 
most enticing. Her face has been so made by nature as to offer 
direct contact to the lips of the chosen mate. In general her 
figure is made rounder, less angular than that of man, by the 
inner development of the adipose tissues, giving a special grace¬ 
fulness to her limbs and a great elegance to the outline of her 
body. 

It may be said that the feminine form calls for caresses, 
while the sterner features of man are suggestive of force. The 
woman's voice is softer and weaker than the man's voice, and 
you perceive in its trilling tones the vibration of her frailer 
structure. 

Nothing unsightly mars the woman’s appearance; her or¬ 
gans of femininity are either, as the breast, an ornament, or 
hidden inside her body, so that the esthetic pleasure of her 
mate may not suffer any distraction. While unseen, the pecu¬ 
liar organs of woman occupy a far larger part of her body 
than those of man, and are in every respect more susceptible 
to ills, many of which do not result, as in the case of man, from 
special misuse, but from general conditions of health and from 
ways of living, which, under certain circumstances, expose the 
most modest woman to what is termed woman's afflictions. 

We need not dwell on this special aspect of the woman's 
sexuality, for every woman, and even the most innocent young 
girl, knows either by personal experience, or by the complaints 
of some woman friend, how simple indispositions, of which man 
scarcely takes notice, such as constipation and abdominal colds, 


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always affect greatly the woman’s organs, and often with great 
pain and serious consequences. The extent and delicacy of her 
organs subject the woman to special cares and hygiene of 
which the man is free. 

Differences in physical forms and organs involve different 
physiological manifestations, which manifestations have to oc¬ 
cur in normal condition to preserve general health. 

The woman’s organism calls for a great quantity of rich 
blood to allow the cleansing of the organs of femininity, which 
in good health is done without pain and only attended by some 
languor inviting to rest. 

Since all cerebral and physical activities use up the red 
corpuscles of the blood,—which are the reconstructive material 
of the organic tissues,—and since the brain is first supplied, we 
must remark again that the more blood the brain and muscles 
use up, the less remains available for the other organs. 

Considering how much of the woman’s body is given to 
her sex; considering how far her sex influences the whole frame 
of her being; considering that any disturbance in her sexuality 
affects her general condition of health, and that all disorders in 
her other organic functions reflect upon the condition of her 
peculiar organs, the logical conclusion of this short outline is 
that the function of her sex over-rules in a woman’s life any 
other consideration, as it is the root of her entire constitution 
and physical welfare, and imposes on her special ways of 
living which have to be taken into account when her proper 
activities in human society are outlined. 

Coming now to the fundamental characteristic difference in 
sexes, we find it in their peculiar functions. The male principle 
obtains its satisfaction in its triumph over the female principle, 
which in its turn receives its gratification by submission. 
Sexual feelings, which, localized and aggressive in man, give 
momentarily added strength to his whole body, have in woman 
a reverse course: her sexual feelings have on her pervasive 
mollifying effects, and deliver her defenseless to her lover as 


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if overcome by sacred awe, after some instinctive reactions, 
more or less strong according to her temperament. 

The relatively weaker constitution of the woman is evidently 
the medium of this idiosyncrasy, and furthermore, it has been 
observed that abnormal women, roughly built, with little evi¬ 
dence of woman’s grace, are but little influenced by love and 
very seldom bear children. 

Nature did not make a mistake in forming woman the way 
she did, for it is in proportion to her attractiveness that woman 
is the object of man’s attention, and it is in proportion to his 
desire for her that he finds strength to give her satisfaction in 
her weakness and defeat. 


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CHAPTER IV. 

Mentality. 

The peculiar physical structure of the woman and its 
physiological functions determine her mentality. 

All sentiments are attended by movements of the blood 
resulting from nervous impulses or reactions on the organs of 
circulation consequent upon external or mental stimuli. The 
density of nervous matter being less in woman than in man; 
the localization of her nerve centers being less definite; the 
woman’s organs being in general more delicate and for the 
same reason subject to greater disturbances, stimuli have ujx>n 
her a more extended, if less acute effect, causing a wider range 
of feeling and the preponderance in woman of sentiment over 
reasoning. 

In moments of excitement her changes of mind are so swift 
and confused that she may be sincere in showing friendliness 
two minutes after having expressed extreme hatred. The pre¬ 
dominance of the sympathetic system, which controls the circu¬ 
lation of blood, explains why the woman remains physically in 
a great state of excitement when her mentality has already 
changed. 

That the woman refers all actions of man toward her to 
her femininity, and all actions of other women to her personal 
qualities, are matters of common observation and find their final 
reason in the whole constitution of woman who is made to 
please. She wants the man to be pleased, and the other woman 
to know how pleasing she is. When, by some circumstances, 
these two motive forces of her mentality have weakened or dis¬ 
appeared, the woman is rapidly sinking to the lowest standard 
of womanhood, for she loses the privileges of her sex, confin¬ 
ing herself to a life of animality as is found in drunkards, drug 
addicts, gormandizers and the like, as is found in women forced 


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to degrading and mean work. This baseness, which may not 
be confused with homeliness or deformity, is just a lack of 
personal decency. 

Although it is a woman’s characteristic to desire to please, 
which is in direct relation with the gracefulness of her being, 
she reaches her aim by attractiveness, not by aggressiveness; so 
that the coquette offers her allurements as if it were by accident 
and with a semblance of modesty. 

Modesty is, in the woman’s mentality, the counterbalance 
to her desire to please. It restrains her, in ordinary circum¬ 
stances, from unwarranted actions. 

As femininity cannot find its satisfaction by its own action, 
but only by subjection to the male principle, the woman’s co¬ 
ordinate mentality disposes her to passivity by virtue of 
modesty. 

Modesty is essentially a woman’s sentiment which helps to 
protect her, but which would hamper the man in his natural 
functions, without any compensation or advantage: deprive the 
woman of modesty and she will unavoidably be the willing 
victim of any man that happens to please her; give modesty to 
the man and he becomes useless. 

Sentiments are effects, the reason for which and the ends of 
which are generally easy to find, but their causes are often 
obscure. Nevertheless, in a broad way, it may safely be opined 
that modesty results from the fact that an unexpected and blunt 
movement, a shrill or lamenting sound, and, as a rule, all nerve 
stirring events, react directly on the peculiar organs of femin¬ 
inity with disturbing sensations, thus giving the woman a kind 
of anguish for all that involves her sexuality, be it by mental 
process as imagination or actual sensation. Thus modesty is 
inherent in woman’s nature. 

Kindness and wickedness assume in man and woman dif¬ 
ferent forms. In man they depend mostly on his personal dis¬ 
position and are generally the same toward all fellow-creatures; 


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but these sentiments in woman vary as they apply to a man 
or to a woman. 

The woman is at once more prone to pity and more cruel 
than the man. Her pity applies especially to the beautiful 
spoiled, the good wronged, the strong abased. She feels sorry 
for a flower trampled up; she cries over a child mistreated; she 
sympathizes with the wounded, the sick and the crippled; she 
forgives easily the man that wronged her, but she is cruel when 
hurt in her woman’s pride and implacable if the offender is one 
of her own sex—especially if she has been given authority over 
her. 

These observations are clearly illustrated by the feelings 
prevailing where girls have to obey another woman, as in 
schools, stores or workshops. The foreman is a brute to the 
girl upon whom he looks only as a machine and whom he 
“calls down,” but the fore-woman is a personal enemy. 

A vivid example of this peculiarity of feminine mentality 
was recently brought to public attention in the County Court 
of White Plains, at the trial on a charge of assault of a former 
inmate of the Bedford Reformatory for Women. It developed 
from testimonies at an investigation ordered in the case by the 
Governor of the State, that, as a measure of restraint, girls 
were handcuffed behind their backs and strung up on the cell 
grating, the weight of the body hanging on the socket, and, 
sometimes, the feet not touching the floor or merely the tiptoes 
resting on the ground. This “treatment” was also comple¬ 
mented by dipping the head of the girl in a pail of water until 
she was half unconscious with eyes swollen out of her 
head; and after that “treatment” girls “would stand on their 
feet when they were not too far gone.” Sometimes the guards 
unstrung them hastily in fear that they had died; afterward 
they were left unattended in a cell without a bed. This was 
not an unusual treatment. 

Another way of restraining the inmates from talking, using 


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27 


profanity, or writing notes, was to put soap and water in their 
mouths, which quieted them by smothering, and “burned their 
insides.” 

These treatments were inflicted by the orders of the women 
at that time in charge of the institution, and the latter often 
took a hand in their application. The only mild protest came 
from a man, a guard who said that “the State Board of Chari¬ 
ties would object to the water treatment.” 

The soap and water treatment was put into use by Dr. 
Katherine B. Davis, now connected with the Bureau of Social 
Hygiene of the Rockefeller Foundation in Manhattan. Mrs. 
Stone, one of the officials, in defense of her disciplinary 
measures, declared: “If you don’t rule the girls with an iron 
hand, you could not live with them.” Miss Minogue, another 
official, said: “There is no cruelty in this method.” Mrs. H. 
W. Hoffman, matron of Rebecca Hall, asserted: “You would 
use the same kind of treatment yourself if you were there any 
length of time.” Dr. Mary Conant, resident physician, ad¬ 
mitted that Thomas Quinn, a guard, pleaded with her to do 
something for the girls, who he said, were being strung up. 
She told him he would have to complain to the Superintendent. 
Dr. Conant was asked if she would approve of ducking 
a girl in cold water, if she had a weak heart, without examina¬ 
tion. “No!” responded the physician, “but any girl that breaks 
windows and swears the way they do up here, hasn’t got a weak 
heart.” 

These expressions of personal feelings of the officials of the 
institution, have a counterpart in the feelings of the inmates 
toward them, as shown in this abstract of the New York World, 
reporting on the same case: “Toward Mr. Kennedy and Father 
Thomas Kelly, a member of the Board of Managers, the ac¬ 
cused girl showed great deference, and meekly answered: “Yes, 
Father,” when the Priest asked her if she had not been in¬ 
corrigible. Resentment toward the matrons flared up more 


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THE BOLSHEVISM OF SEX 


than once, requiring the skill of Mr. Lynch to restrain what 
might have been an outburst.” 

These and similar facts compelled the Legislature of New 
York State to pass a bill changing the law, which for twenty 
years provided for a female superintendent. Now the choice 
of a man or a woman for this position is optional with the ap¬ 
pointing authorities. Immediately after the law was passed a 
man, Dr. Amos T. Baker, a psychiatrist, was put in charge of 
the Reformatory. 

This shows conclusively that a woman for another woman, 
no matter how different their positions, is always but a woman; 
she who orders is tyrannic, she who has to obey, is a rebel; 
both are enemies. 

The woman is more compassionate than the man,—the lat¬ 
ter being satisfied with alleviating misfortune, but the woman 
adds kindness to her favor. The woman sacrifices her own 
person for the one she loves,—the man strives by work or fight 
to secure the welfare of the loved one. 

In friendship, a woman does not hesitate to expose herself 
to hardship, misfortune, even to perjury and disgrace, to help 
those she loves. This is because sentiment is predominant in 
her. A man as a rule, is inclined to help his friend, provided it 
does not cause any harm to himself. This is because reasoning 
and consideration of the consequences of his actions are pre¬ 
valent in man. Thence comes self-sacrifice of the woman and 
selfishness of the man. 

At the same time that the woman sacrifices all to her love, 
she also is prone to use any means in the satisfaction of her 
hate, not even stopping at harming herself to abase or destroy 
her enemy, while man is more considerate of the fighting means 
he uses. This comes from the fact that man, in good or 
evil, acts more openly by force while woman acts by deceit 
and cunning. This is in direct relation with the general con¬ 
stitution of man and woman; strength and responsibility being 
man’s qualities; weakness and heedlessness being attributes of 


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the woman where sentimentality is involved. The man is more 
affected by compulsion and strength, so he aims at the body; 
the woman is more sensitive, so she aims at the mind. The 
man wants to annihilate his enemy, the woman wants to make 
him suffer. The man knocks down, the woman scratches. 

Reasoning never changes a woman’s mind—but an appeal 
to a woman’s feelings seldom fails; for, although you may con¬ 
vince her intellect of the justness of your opinion, she will fol¬ 
low the lead of her sentimentality. 

From this disposition, and because of the weakness of the 
woman’s constitution it results that girls and women are seldom, 
if ever, what may be called “bad.” Their faults, even their 
crimes, are always sentimentally explained or excused in that 
they are a kind of self-defense. Women rarely become pro¬ 
fessional criminals. They act under passing impulses—not 
realizing the gravity of their acts. 

Women’s offenses, for the greater part, are of sexual char¬ 
acter, and termed offenses very often only by the narrow¬ 
mindedness of the law makers, and occuring especially under 
the stress of adverse social conditions for the improvement of 
which no effective steps are taken. 

Will power is a question of nerves, that is to say a question 
of density of cerebral matter. The stronger his nerves, the 
better a man is able to resist the will of a fellow-man or to 
impose his own determination. It has been seen that the 
woman’s nerves are frailer and weaker in composition than the 
man’s nerves, and this corresponds exactly to the weaker will 
of the woman. The man claims his right by force, the woman 
by pleadings and tears. A woman submits passively to orders 
strongly given, or revolts, but never takes a calm stand of 
opposition. 

An outside influence has to guide the woman and keep her 
going to a certain end, because her mentality changes at every 
sentimental event. Let us remark that this versatility restrains 
the woman from over-taxing her brain and central nervous sys- 


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tem, and it will be seen later how this versatility helps the 
woman in the fulfillment of her natural laws. It is a hardship i 
for a man to be exposed to a quick firing of impulses, but it 
is no less a hardship for the woman to be subjected to a 
uniform and uninterrupted mental tension. 

Consciousness of her weakness inclines the woman to hide 
her real sentiments, or even to affect other sentiments than 
those she feels, not as men do through mere politeness, but in 
order to reach her aims by some confused by-ways. 

General personality is very closely linked with these senti¬ 
ments, and come from the opinion one has of himself; the man 
considers himself as an individual of destiny; all hamperings in 
the attainment of his aims are sins against him and obstacles 
to be removed or broken through. He conceives the world as 
dependent upon him. The woman feels that to secure her own 
development and protection she has to fit herself into social en¬ 
vironments. He accommodates the world to his wishes; she, to 
succeed, accommodates herself to the wishes of the world. 

Heedlessness of consequences must be connected with pre- 
dominence of sentimentality in woman, which is caused by the 
delicacy of her organism and less localized nerve centers; her 
weaker will, her versatility and less salient personality are 
associated with the same causes. 

So it appears that woman is different from man, not only 
physically, physiologically and intellectually, but also senti¬ 
mentally; and that all her peculiarities, which are essential to 
her existence, have their origin in her femininity, which is 
ultimately the sole root of her being and must determine the 
whole condition of her welfare and of her very life itself. 

It has often been argued that in times up to now, and even 
at the present time, the lesser achievements of women in public 
life, such as business, politics and science, were due to adverse 
conditions, the woman “not getting a fair chance in life” as 
does the man, which would imply that the evolution of woman 
has been hampered by the selfishness of man. But this must 


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31 


be regarded only as a sophism and a misconception, for the 
woman entity has followed its evolution according to its nature 
in parallel with the development of man, neither of them being 
slower nor faster, but keeping up with each other as nature has 
decreed. It is an injustice to the Woman, and an insult to our 
mothers, to suggest that the woman until now has not normally 
developed. 

Considering the special mental qualifications which have 
been summarily analyzed hereabove, one question may be 
asked: Would it be possible to develop a man’s mind in a 
woman’s body and would this change be beneficial to the 
woman ? 

Since the woman’s sentiments result from her peculiar 
physical structure and its physiologic functions, a change 
in mentality would be possible only if accompanied by 
a change in structure and functions, which would mean 
adaptation and atrophy, depriving the woman of peculiarities 
she needs in the harmony of her being: man’s mentality as well 
as woman’s depends on special organs and constitution. The 
woman could imitate the man’s ways of acting as could 
man the ways of woman, but it would be only an outward ap¬ 
pearance, no more deceiving than man’s clothes on a woman’s 
body. This change of mentality in woman, even if possible, 
could not in any way be beneficial to her, for it would not 
serve any purpose of her being; the free and normal play of 
nature’s forces alone can secure the advantages to which a being 
is entitled. So let the woman be womanly in all her faculties ; 
it is more honorable to be a good womanly woman than a 
ridiculous and impotent imitation of man. 


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PART III. 

THE NATURAL LAWS OF MANKIND IN REGARD 
TO THE WOMAN. 

CHAPTER I. 

The Law of Preservation of the Individual. 

After having considered the woman as compared to man, 
we come now upon the first of the great laws of humanity,—- 
that of the Preservation of the Individual. 

Man, as well as all other animate beings, possesses by in¬ 
stinct, when powers of nature are left to their free reactions, 
proper means of self-protection and betterment known as the 
Law of Preservation of the Individual. 

Physical, mental and intellectual reactions converge to the 
same purpose of protection. The eye accommodates itself to 
the intensity of light so as to be preserved from harm; sym¬ 
pathy leads the human being to his fellow-creature when bene¬ 
volent,—antipathy keeps him away from the malevolent; curi¬ 
osity and doubt automatically bring forth reasoning in order 
to secure possession of the truth. So, .left to itself, human 
nature provides appropriate instruments for the preservation 
of the faculties of the individual. 

The preservation of the individual operates in the same way 
for man and woman in their general constitution as human 
beings, but involves special ways so far as their peculiar organs 
are concerned. 

The purpose of this work not being to teach how to take 
care of the body, the reader will not expect us to give an out- 


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line of the physiological functions of sexual organs and their 
reactions, but we will have to understand the general principles 
governing the feminine development. 

An animate being as a whole can properly be preserved only 
if all its parts are proportionately developed and harmoniously 
combined in the constant changes of its normal evolution. 

The woman in the course of life evolves through three dis¬ 
tinct stages, which are maidenhood, wifehood, and mother¬ 
hood ; and we have thus to study the woman from these three 
view-points in the accomplishment of the Law of Preservation 
of the Individual. 


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CHAPTER II. 

Maidenhood. 

Her femininity is, for the woman, the most important 
object in her whole life. It is, as has been remarked before, 
the root of her physical, mental and intellectual faculties, and 
its influence shows itself from the moment of her birth to the 
end of her life; but it especially begins to increase in import¬ 
ance when she reaches the age of 13 or 14 years. 

As the peculiar organs of the young girl develop and ripen 
to the point that their physiological functions appear, potential 
love comes into the girl’s life. 

It is at first a vague longing for tenderness that satisfies 
itself in physical languor and lonely reveries, which at the out¬ 
set have not the man as an object, but dwell upon sentimental 
romance. The girl, according to her temperament and mood, 
fancies herself the happy heroine for whom undetermined ad¬ 
mirers carry out heroic deeds or the unfortunate fiancee in 
such a sad, oh such a terribly sad story, that she herself some¬ 
times cries over her imaginary misfortunes. 

Later on, the dream from sentimentality drifts to sen¬ 
sations, and as the novels, paintings and photoplays, or as the 
examples of her elders have taught her, she pictures to herself 
the dainty attentions of some idealized lover. 

These different stages of evolution are all in the mind and 
fancy for which no representation of the hero is needed; but 
progressively as her feminine development completes itself and 
as dim sensations assert their presence, the girl’s fancy becomes 
more concrete and she elects as the object of her affection a 
distant hero, an actor, a character in a play or in a novel, or 
even a painted figure. This lover she endows with all the best 
qualities of mankind in all their glory, and to him she devotes 
all the treasures of her chaste and secret love. 


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35 


But, little by little, she comes to compare her fancy with 
real men that live about her, and now comes for her the time 
to give a little start, or an innocent blush, when she finds in 
one of her male acquaintances some of the qualities she be¬ 
stowed upon her hero. Her pre-love sentimental evolution is 
now nearly completed and, the sexual instinct awakening, she 
reaches the age of desire. Let her now meet a man that strikes 
her fancy, or one who pays attention to her, and she will learn 
the realities of sentimental love with its joys and sorrows, its 
hopes and despairs. 

Similarity of character, habits and hopes, or handsomeness, 
kindliness and intelligence, are not always the causes that arouse 
a girl’s love,—love comes to the girl through affinity or corre¬ 
spondence between one quality or feature in the man and a 
special need or inclination in the maiden’s natural dispositions. 
Thence she wants that man for the satisfaction of her desire. 

So, a delicate girl may love a human brute because of his 
strength; an athletic girl may love a weakling because of his 
intelligence; a refined girl may love an uneducated man because 
of his self-confidence; an honest girl may love a scamp because 
of his handsomeness; a beautiful girl may love a homely man 
because of his devotion to her,—but any girl, to love, needs to 
discover in the man some kind of superiority that dominates 
her, makes her dream and establishes the predominance of this 
man in her mind. 

It is for this quality that she surrenders to the ascendency 
of this particular man to the exclusion of all others, for her 
modesty would revolt against a purely sensual victory of the 
male principle. There must be for love a higher motive. If 
this higher motive is lacking there is no love, but only effer¬ 
vescence which may cause the fall of a corrupt or abnormal 
woman, but to which an unsophisticated maiden does not yield. 

By auto-suggestion the predominance of the elect establishes 
itself into the girl’s mind; and this predominance increases the 


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delicious emotions that the chosen man provokes in her, there¬ 
by tracing the path-ways of the habit of love. 

So, her heart beats more freely and something like a re¬ 
freshing light pervades her brain when the beloved one ap¬ 
pears; and she feels a shrinking of her breast, a stiffening of 
her neck and brain if he seems to pay attention to someone else, 
or is late at the appointment. 

But that the maiden is now in the period of life in which 
she desires the attentions of man does not mean that she is 
ready to accept actual love-making. Oh no, for any daring 
liberty will be deeply resented. 

At the same time that intuition of the significance of sex 
comes to her, modesty appears, replacing her innocence of 
younger years. And the same fact which has been referred to 
before, that woman ascribes to her sexuality all actions of man 
because mental reactions affect her femininity, may account for 
the fear and deep emotion that the maiden feels at the slightest 
and most accidental contact with the man object of her senti¬ 
mental love. An anguish and a straining of nerves and muscles 
pervade her whole body if he lays his hand on her shoulder, 
and it is only by and by that her sensitiveness can be educated 
so as to dim the reactions that dominate her. Her modesty is 
offended by the attention of indifferent people,—her sensitive¬ 
ness is aroused by her sweetheart’s approach. 

Here must come into play the man’s part in the love- 
making. The girl is now like a timid fidgety bird that the 
man has to tame and to make familiar. This is generally a 
very hard task which has brought with it the motto that “True 
love never runs smooth,” for the flitting little thing defends 
itself by unexpected and puzzling attitudes,—sometimes cool¬ 
ness, irritability or irony, and even naughtiness. 

Although longing to be with him, she flees when she sees 
the man coming, or she affronts him in a nasty way,—dispelling 
innocently and instinctively the strategy of woman’s artifices. 

This is the birth of actual love, and it illustrates more than 


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any other action of the human being the general characteristics 
of mentality inherent in sexes. 

The man does not love the same way as the woman in 
general, and especially as the maiden. The man may make 
love in quest of a passing pleasure or by man’s vanity to assert 
the reputation of a “lady killer.” His instinct, at first, is poly¬ 
gamous and from the start of his sexual awakening his ac¬ 
tivities are directed to actual satisfaction. He does not dream 
for the woman to come along, but goes hunting for her, and 
while the girl seeks quietness and solitude to feed her fancy, 
the young man lurks around to catch his prey. 

Often a man courts a girl because he feels for her a physical 
attraction; it may be for him a passing whim, a momentary 
sexual hunger which he is willing to satisfy with any pleasant 
or complacent woman and for which, except in cases of per¬ 
versity, a maiden is not his object. 

The maiden never feels any call of a similar kind. Sexual 
intercourse, which for the man is but a matter of gratification, 
is for the girl a tremendously important event in life on account 
of its fatal and far reaching consequences. But the girl has 
been properly provided with protection against indiscretion 
through physical maidenhood completed by its correlation, 
mental modesty. 

However great may be a maiden’s passion (pathological 
cases excepted) the maiden will be refractory to any sexual 
intercourse not accompanied with the semblance of guaranty, 
at least moral, for the honesty and responsibility of the man. 
Nor does she come to it in an abrupt and casual manner, but 
only after the frequentation of the man she loves, and some 
trifling familiarities, have quieted down the flutter and anguish 
of her senses. An intimation that he would forsake her after¬ 
ward would prevent any girl from falling,—while the young 
man does not expect any pledge from the woman he meets. 

These basic mental differences find their causes in the 
peculiar organs of man and woman: for man, intercourse is a 


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pleasure,—for woman, it is attended with anguish and actual 
pain. 

Throughout the courting, and ultimately the mating, ag¬ 
gressiveness is the man's part and passiveness is the woman's 
part. 

Aggressiveness in the man does not allow him to force him¬ 
self upon the woman, treating women and girls as pet cats and 
pet dogs when he has a moment leisure; this is flirtation, and 
in no sense related to the completion of the human individuality 
or the perpetuation of the race. 

A man who courts a girl because he loves her may look 
queer, but a girl in love with a man who does not care for her 
and to whom she shows her desire for him, is treated by him 
and considered by others, like a she-dog running about the 
streets in spring time. 

So the woman, to be respected by the man, has, in matters 
of love, to abide by her modesty, which is a part of her natural 
law of passiveness. Passiveness is the woman’s lot by nature, 
and a conclusive illustration of it will be found in the fact 
that when a woman attracts a man to whom she does not 
naturally and imperatively appeal, she can keep him only for 
a short time until the woman he likes and wants appears, and 
then he throws the former away with contempt and mockery. 

Passiveness is natural to the maiden, but acceptance and 
refusal are her rights. Of course, to accept or to refuse a man 
is not generally a question of words. A maiden's modesty stops 
her from acknowledging a true love, a love, as say the French, 
that runs in the blood, a love of heart, soul and body. 
Feminine pride and self-respect may keep the girl distant and 
cold toward the man she loves, for she fears that the one she 
loves and who loves her might become too passionate. 

It may even happen that she is hiding to herself her real 
state of mind, or that the artificial education given to girls 
nowadays induces them to believe that love is ridiculous but 
that flirtation is fashionable, so that the man, uncertain of 


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39 


the girl’s feelings, is in general obliged to be aggressive and 
even is forced to act in spite of the girl’s protests. A maiden, 
in matters of love, wants to be compelled to do what she herself 
desires most. 

The natural way of the maiden to acknowledge and accept 
a man’s love depends on her woman’s temperament. A maiden 
of lymphatic temperament (generally a blond, calm and soft) 
will, without deceit, let her lover press her hand, smile at him 
and seal the understanding with a kiss. 

The nervous maiden whose eyes are constantly glittering 
and lightening in all directions, will embrace the man who tells 
her his love and print on his lips a painful kiss. 

But the girl of passionate temperament is the most rebell¬ 
ious of all in acknowledging love. She feels deep and sudden 
veerings of temper for a word or less than a word. By periods 
she is under the depression of an unreasonable melancholy 
which only wanes when her temper is aroused by some sharp 
discussion; and by periods, she is noisily cheerful. 

Usually ardent or sad, and always with excess, she wonders 
if she is capable of love when for a short while her little soul 
is not swept by some tumultuous tempest,—and her mood makes 
for the man who loves her the time of the courting the most 
dreadful experience of his life. His only opportunity to tell 
her his big and well-known secret is to find her in a spirit of 
calm and sweet happiness, in a moment of tenderness when a 
word of deep and sincere love will not scare her easily excited 
temper. 

So whatever may be the woman’s temperament, passiveness 
is her part in love. 

From the very start, love is the appropriation of the woman 
by the man: he chooses her and buys her with his love, and she 
accepts his love as a price for herself, soul and body. This 
appropriation is the most complete that can be found in the 
world, for the woman has to submit herself to the man and 
have the will to do so in spite of anguish and pain. 


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The lover wants everything of the maiden: Body, heart and 
soul. All that, if he loves, he wants for himself alone, with 
passion and jealousy,—the latter being understood as the desire 
to keep what you have. The man who loves is jealous and so 
also is the woman, because each of them is the property of 
the other. But they are not jealous for the same motives: 
The man is jealous of attentions paid to his future or actual 
mate because, if these attentions are meant, they are an attempt 
to take her away from him,—the woman is jealous of the atten¬ 
tions paid by her husband to other women because she feels 
these attentions to be exclusively her own. 

Jealousy is for both sexes the best test of love, and a 
man’s jealousy is for the woman the best of safeguards. A 
man who really loves a girl wants her to be good and straight. 
He helps and protects her. He respects her himself and wants 
her to be respected by others. He cares for his eventual prop¬ 
erty : The Maiden, that treasure that he tries to keep. That is 
why he is jealous. Love and jealousy are so correlative that 
it may be said that where there is no jealousy there is no love. 

It may be necessary to state here that jealousy is a virtue 
when one is jealous of his wife as a woman, or when a wife is 
jealous of her husband as a man,—but it is a defect improperly 
called jealousy when it asserts itself as a pretense of tyrannic 
will. 

The woman, as a rule, is proud of the jealousy she inspires 
in man. It makes her conscious of what she means to him. 
Should it breed ill temper and unfairness, she will not submit 
to it; but she will comply with her husband’s wishes, even 
unspoken, if she feels that she is, even innocently, responsible 
for his anxiety. 

Love, as a faculty contributing to the completion of the 
normally constituted individual, is a law of mankind. Under 
the same heading come modesty and passiveness, because they 
are natural in woman and lend aid toward her protection in 
her stage of maidenhood. 


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41 


So throughout the evolution of a maiden’s love and its 
correlation with man, the natural laws of modesty and passive¬ 
ness of the maiden and the law of aggressiveness of man 
appear invariably, and it has been shown that these ways of 
acting are direct results of the functions of the peculiar organs 
of both sexes. It establishes the unquestionable predominance 
of the male principle in courting and the necessity for such a 
predominance in the accomplishment of the law of Preservation 
of the Individual, as it applies to woman in her stage of maiden¬ 
hood. 


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CHAPTER III. 

Wifehood. 

The girl, object of a happy love, steps from maidenhood to 
wifehood, which by the intervening sexual intercourse achieves 
actually the appropriation of woman by man. The man by 
unlocking for the maiden the gates of wifehood, be it with the 
guarantees of law or religion, or be it under tacit consent, 
assumes special duties and responsibilities while he receives by 
the same act correlative rights. 

These duties and rights may be called the natural laws of 
mating. In outlining the laws of the natural state of marriage 
according to its aims and purposes, what has been said of love 
must be kept in mind to enlighten the sentimental conditions 
of mating. 

Marriage has lately been regarded as a mere contract that 
can be cancelled by the will of one of the parties or by the 
consent of both. This is a legal procedure, but nature itself 
ordained differently, for if it is possible for a court to cancel 
the civil agreement attending mating, or if it is possible for a 
clergyman to declare null and void the religious bond which he 
himself asserted binding, still there is no means for the human 
being to undo what has been done and restore to the wife her 
qualities of maidenhood, with the attending privileges. This de¬ 
monstrates once more that there is between man and woman an 
absolute and unchangeable difference, determining the various 
ways of sexes: the intercourse being for man a momentary 
physiological manifestation, but provoking in woman an actual 
and irretrievable change. 

Nobody will support a thesis asserting the purpose of the 
mating of a man and a maiden to be satisfaction of the senses, 
for this is only an accessory facilitating the mating, nature hav¬ 
ing assigned to each natural function naturally performed an 


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appropriate gratification such as we find by the taste in eating 
and drinking, and generally in all acts of the human body tend¬ 
ing to the conservation of the individual. 

The immediate purpose of mating is to complete the individ¬ 
uality of both sexes: each sex needing the other for the proper 
discharge of its natural functions. But these functions possess 
special characteristics. 

So the fecundation of the woman can be brought about 
only by one man, and that fact is connected with the woman's 
maidenhood, which preserves her from men’s enterprises. From 
these peculiar dispositions of the woman’s structure, come her 
exclusiveness or “monoandry” which complements her passivity 
with its mental reverberation: Modesty. A wife is offended 
by attentions aiming at sensual pleasure coming from any other 
than the man she is mated with, and whose protection she 
wants against too aggressive males. 

Exclusiveness, being for woman a consequence of her 
peculiar organism, it is for her a natural law. Exclusiveness 
is for her a duty, and, correlatively, a right for her husband; 
exclusiveness implies the woman’s acknowledgement of marital 
appropriation. When mating, the woman pledges herself to 
exclusiveness, without which no man would marry a girl, and 
this pledge gives her a right to permanency. 

The man does not possess organs calling for exclusiveness. 
He can fecundate several women without interfering with the 
completeness of his being. In fact some of the greatest nations 
of the past, like the Medes and the Persians, recognized and 
even praised polygamy. Further, natural history reveals that 
males of most of the higher mammals have several mates and 
that the reverse never occurs in normal conditions,—so that it 
may be safely asserted that polygamy is not a crime against 
nature, but that it is a social offense because it slightens the 
wife. 

The woman’s fault is against nature, the man’s fault against 
his wife. 


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Exclusiveness of man exists, but it is of a different and 
more selfish kind than in woman. It takes its root in the love 
of the man for his wife, and it has an adequate adjustment in 
the natural repulsion man feels for the advance of any aggress¬ 
ive woman. He may be attracted in some circumstances by 
another woman’s charms and may desire her, but at the same 
time he is jealous of his wife and would not part with her,— 
while the wife becoming untrue to her husband avoids any 
communion with him. It becomes a case of morbid exclusive¬ 
ness. 

Innocence, or the child’s ignorance of the significance of 
sex, has become modesty in the maiden when love was revealed 
to her, and the maiden’s modesty gives way to another senti¬ 
ment as the girl becomes woman. When the girl relinquishes 
modesty and maidenhood in favor of her mate, it is with the 
understanding that it is a process in her natural evolution tend¬ 
ing toward the completion of her being. This momentous act 
in a girl’s life is solemnized by the natural pledges involved. 
Because of its motives and ends, the bride does not feel ashamed 
of the communion with her husband, although legitimate 
modesty makes imperative a honeymoon that protects her from 
inquisitive relatives and friends and spares her sensitiveness. 

By her acquired experience and the instinctive intuition of 
her natural laws, the wife becomes conscious of the nobleness 
of her mission. She knows herself to be the sacred altar where 
operates the mystery of life, and from this knowledge of the 
purpose of her being originates the woman’s pride in her 
nature, which is the source of her selLrespect. She accepts 
her husband’s attentions with love and joy, but she wants 
others to consider her as what she is: a potential mother of 
men. Woman’s self-respect is the mental correlative to the 
woman’s exclusiveness or ability of being fecundated only by 
one man. 

Her natural law of exclusiveness entails for woman a right: 
the right of Permanency. Because of her natural law of ex- 


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elusiveness that forbids her to accept another mate while her 
natural husband, the only possible mate, the one that made her 
a woman, lives,—because her passiveness does not allow her to 
go and search for another man,—permanency is her right. Be¬ 
sides being a right for the woman, for the reasons stated above, 
permanency is a duty for both: The man's repudiation of his 
wife, just the same as the wife's abandonment of her husband, 
would either deprive the woman of the completeness of her 
being, or cause her to break the natural laws of passiveness and 
exclusiveness. 

The ways of living of animate beings are always determined 
by organic and encompassing conditions; so we find that 
migrating birds mate only for one season, which is a lapse of 
time sufficient for their offspring to become adult, and their 
mating is limited to one season because, migrating in flocks, 
permanent companionship is next to impossible. 

When we consider the human being, we find no similarity 
of conditions which would allow the parting of the original 
mates,—there is no natural limitation to the period of man and 
woman’s union. If mating were but a passing whim of senti¬ 
mentality or sensuality, the man would be right ethically to 
repudiate his wife when his senses or his fancy are no longer 
gratified,—that is to say, when he falls in love with another 
woman, when his sensual pleasure has been satisfied, 
when pregnancy does not enable his wife to receive his atten¬ 
tions, or when the woman grows old and less attractive. Any 
one of these suppositions is simply monstrous and reduces the 
woman to a FLESH OF SENSUAL SATISFACTION,— 
an animal leased by man for a period of time and to whom the 
generosity of the law, by alimony, allows a forfeit until she has 
found a new leaseholder. 

If the parting of mates were a matter of mutual con¬ 
sent, it would amount merely to an agreement of both to break 
their natural laws, to which offense no social law is ethically 
entitled to give its sanction. 


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The facts that puberty comes two or three years earlier 
in girls than in boys and that vitality of man lasts ten or 
fifteen years longer than the capacity of bearing in woman, 
have to be recalled here in connection with the permanency 
of the mating. For if mating were only a time contract the 
man would be right in repudiating his wife every few years; 
and a woman reaching forty years of age would have passed 
in the hands of three or four husbands and would be left 
aside—forgotten like a worn out dress in the attic closet. In 
normally mated men and women, sensual ardor diminishes 
gradually in both of the mates at the same time so that with 
the lessening of the man’s vitality comes, in like parallel, the 
inability of woman to procreate. Seniority in the man, calls 
for the respect of his wife and helps to maintain the needed 
harmony of their respective positions. 

Another characteristic of the mating is that a man, whether 
or not he has known other women, is for his maiden-bride, 
in the whole meaning of the word, an initiator and educator; 
so that the husband is enabled to mold her sensual passion in 
the cast of his own temperament and morality. 

For the young wife, intercourse is, during the first year of 
the mating, and generally until after the birth of the first child, 
an act to which she submits more to please her husband than 
for personal enjoyment, and this fact, of which husbands have 
personal experience and of which doctors and confessors know 
many instances, is so true that a girl not previously corrupted 
by surrounding and companionship, but who has fallen under 
betraying circumstances, will live after her sin as chastely and 
modestly as the purest maiden. Another instance is that of 
the so-called “society butterfly” who, shunning intercourse with 
her husband and avoiding motherhood, shines for other men, 
not for the sake of communion, but in quest of the excitement 
of flirtation. 

The reader will have noticed that when we speak of mating 
we always refer to it as the union of a man and a maiden, 


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not considering the union of a man and a woman,—widow or 
divorcee,—for the very simple reason that for the woman 
mating is possible only in her state of maidenhood. 

The union of a man and a woman—when the latter has 
lost her virginity by the act of another man—lacks the 
essential elements pertaining to mating: The qualification of 
exclusiveness is missing in the union of a man and a widow; 
and both qualifications of exclusiveness and permanency are 
utterly out of question in the union of a man and a divorcee. 
Such unions, concluded in contempt of the laws of nature, 
receive no natural consecration of rights and pledges. 

The union, in such cases, originates in the search for sen¬ 
sual gratification and is generally attended with precautions to 
avoid the natural consequences of the act, or the latter is 
followed by measures to divert the course of nature. 

In addition to this, there is an instinctive feeling, as well 
in human society as in the man concerned, that intercourse, 
with a maiden entails full responsibility, but that he is not 
bound in any degree by intercourse with a woman who has 
already known another man,—be she married, divorcee or girl. 
The woman herself, although she may suffer agony because of 
this fact, does not feel that she has natural rights over him. 

Thence comes what people call the double standard of 
morality, which they fight in two wrong ways. They either 
pretend to impose the blame upon man as upon woman, 
regardless of the fundamental differences in their constitution, 
and try to force the laws of passiveness and exclusiveness of 
feminine nature upon an aggressively organized man, or in¬ 
versely they insist that the woman act as if she were an 
aggressive and polyandrous animal. 

Of these two violations of nature, the second is the worst, 
for in the first instance it restrains the man without harm to 
his nature, if he is already mated, but the second method leads 
to the perversion of the woman. 


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Much propaganda has been conducted lately under the 
name of “Equality of Sexes,” “Similarity of Morality,” “Em¬ 
ancipation of the Woman,” tending to counteract the instinctive 
feeling of human nature in regard to sex, and many women 
have taken pride in their degradation by labeling it with one 
of these captions. Everyone, however, has the intimate feeling 
that these “much married society matrons” of whom we see 
pictures on the woman’s page of the papers, and of whose 
matrimonial lewdness we read, are but, in the last analysis, 
lawful courtesans. Their status may have been decreed in due 
form, the court having parted them from preceding husbands, 
but no decree from any court is able to change the nature of 
things. 

It would be socially saner to let prostitution of any kind 
flourish publicly in the whole social scale, than to use hypocrisy 
and cloak vice and vileness in the sacred bond of marriage, 
teaching thus young people by authority of law that a judge’s 
decree enables them to violate the Laws of Nature and defile 
the sanctity of marriage. 

The law that permits marriage of divorced people with 
others than their original mates, throws upon the white veil of 
the maiden-bride the filth of social degradation. It says: 
“Go, and when you act against Nature, come to me and I will 
give you license to fornicate as you please.” 

It is not by the signing of a license, but only by the ob¬ 
servance of the natural laws of mankind that marriage obtains 
its sanctity and mating its nobleness. Free lovers who observe 
their natural laws are morally right, in spite of the lack of 
legal bonds, and they are beyond all proportions ethically 
superior to the much married people of newspaper fame. 

We beg the reader not to construe these remarks as an 
apology for free love, for we believe in religious and legal 
bonds from religious and legal viewpoints, but it must be re¬ 
membered that we are studying now the mating in relation to 
ethics. 


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Love has been analyzed in connection with mating and we 
may recapitulate as follows what has been said of it: Love 
is a needed faculty of the normal human being; it is provoked 
in man by the mental and physical attraction of the woman, and 
in woman from the ascendency and personality of the man. It 
implies the absolute appropriation of the woman by the man, 
with its consequence of jealousy,—the jealousy of the man 
having the entity of the woman as its object: heart, mind and 
body;—the jealousy of the woman having as its object the 
man’s actions, which showed her that she was for him the 
“only woman,” which preference induced her to accept him as 
her mate. 

Love that determines the mating is also the instrument 
making enjoyable and easy the observance of the laws of 
mating; for the physiological tracks of the habit of love which 
have been built under the influence of auto-suggestion, become 
more and more imperious so as to make the presence and 
welfare of the other mate a physical necessity for each of 
them. Auto-suggestion, which presided at the birth of love 
and at the tracing of its physiological pathways, and which is 
the only element in love subjected to the will, is also the only 
motive power that, by the creation of new habits, can obliterate 
the original physiological tracks. Herein we find the moral 
law of mated people, which prohibits them from entertaining 
suggestions that may lead either to the violation of their natural 
laws or to the estrangment of one from the other. 

When mated people part, the guilt of it is always shared by 
both, for their estrangement results from their lower moral 
standards and their deficient mentality, too weak to direct them 
toward the betterment of themselves and their mates. 

Just as the predominance of the male principle was shown 
in the development of the maiden prior to the mating, so are 
also apparent in wifehood, the predominance and aggressiveness 
of man,—and the submission and ^assiveness of woman: Wife- 


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hood being the accomplishment of possession of the woman by 
man, with the enforcement of her gassiveness by exclusiveness 
and permanency for the greatest benefit of the woman’s individ¬ 
ual development. 

The satisfaction of wifehood brings naturally the woman to 
her third evolution: to Motherhood. 


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CHAPTER IV. 

Motherhood. 

Conception, which is a natural consequence of man and 
woman's intercourse, is a normal evolution in the woman’s life 
and may in no sense be identified with illness, because it is the 
result of an act physiologically legitimate. Conception cannot 
be avoided without injury to the woman, for the prevention 
of conception, which subjects the woman to ungratified excite¬ 
ment, wrecks her nervous system (a look at the girls who have 
been for a few years in the “love-selling business” would con¬ 
vince any birth-control partisan). And still far more injurious 
is the crime of abortion which brings generally in itself the 
severest punishment, either ruining the woman’s health so that 
she may never recover from the shock, or even causing the 
woman’s immediate death. / 

Thus prevention of conception and abortion by endangering 
the health and life of the woman, and in the latter case by 
killing the child-to-be, is a violation of the law of Self-Preser¬ 
vation, and should under no condition be practiced, whatever 
the social consequences of the birth of a child may be. 

Two or three weeks after conception, the condition of 
the woman begins to be affected, and as the fetus develops 
the mother requires constantly more and more attention and 
care to insure her own welfare and that of her unborn child. 

For some time before and after the birth of the child, the 
mother is in a weakened condition, and besides, the child 
once born, suckling for the next few months, if mother and 
child are in normal state of health, becomes imperative for 
both, as it is a relief for the mother and a nourishment natur¬ 
ally adapted to the constitution and the age of the child. 

Besides the requirements of vegetative life for which only 
the mother can provide properly, comes the raising of the 


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child and its early education, for which everyone agrees the 
mother is the best fitted tutor. 

Motherhood, more than any other of the woman’s suc¬ 
cessive states, shows strikingly the great difference between 
man and woman, not only physiologically, but also mentally. 

The physiological conditions which determine the woman’s 
mentality in maidenhood and wifehood, play the same part in 
motherhood, and in fact the mother’s mentality is but the 
blooming of the mentality of the maiden and wife evolving 
synoptically with the last of her physiological changes. 

The woman’s general characteristic of passiveness, which 
originates from the submissive organization of her being and 
hampers her for her own benefit as maiden and wife in the 
assumption of social personality, determines the self-forgetful¬ 
ness needed by the mother in order to take proper care of her 
child. For several years, the child demands, day and night, 
undivided, constant and vigilant attention incompatible with 
the pursuance of other achievements. 

Personality in the mother or proneness to subordinate her 
mother’s duties to some foreign accomplishments makes her 
feel as if the child’s needs or ailments were cumbersome 
hindrances. This sentiment soon leads the mother to regulate 
her conduct toward the child according to her mood and temper 
instead of adapting herself to the needs of the child. This 
results in punishing the child for its ailments, and even, some¬ 
times, it will cause her to repulse with rudeness the child’s 
friendly coaxing: In brief, it makes a bad mother out of an 
ordinarily good woman, and annihilates the mutually needed 
love of mother and child. 

The natural versatility of woman or easiness with which 
her mind moves from one purpose to another, which gives her 
quicker comprehension of incidental facts although lessening 
the scope of her reasoning, is one of the most useful faculties 
of woman when a mother, for it enables her to observe, without 
strain or fatigue, a thousand and one little facts occurring every 


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day in a child’s life, and to take prompt and effective measures 
to prevent harm. 

We may infer from the previous remarks that the state of 
motherhood, which the woman has to undergo to attain full 
development of her faculties, limits the woman’s field of ac¬ 
tivities as much as these activities would hamper her natural 
evolution and the welfare of her children. No such limitation 
exists for man, who can exert concurrently all his faculties in 
all walks of life without restraining the development of his 
natural functions as husband and father. 

Social personality is the ensemble of peculiarities which 
make one person different from other fellow-beings. It is the 
predominance of one’s self-consciousness, egotism and will, 
even in the accomplishment of deeds of mercy, and in every 
aspect conflicting with the essential qualifications of woman. 
The woman’s nature calls for meekness, self-sacrifice and 
passiveness, which in spite of temperamental dispositions some¬ 
times counteracting them, are the foundations of her mentality, 
and which cannot be ignored for, as say the French: “Chassez 
le naturel, il revient au galop.” 

Supposing, for the sake of argument, that a woman be so 
abnormally constituted as to be possessed with self-confidence, 
egotism and will, that by these manly qualities she might 
achieve great social works, as great men sometimes do, and 
accomplish her will, it would not mean that this woman would 
have succeeded in the pursuit of happiness: Happiness is not 
the result of the fulfillment of successive wishes, but comes 
from the normal development and harmonious working of the 
human being’s constitutive parts in proper place and time. 

This does not by any means imply that the woman has 
no personality of her own, but it maintains that she has 
another kind of personality than the man, a personality 
arising from her own individual organization. Her per¬ 
sonality should not interfere with the accomplishment of her 
evolution but must be an adequate expression of her state of 


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development; hers is a private personality as maiden, wife and 
mother, because nature made her for man’s intimate purpose 
and not for general public use. The co-operative working of 
the woman’s soul and body will bring her the happiness toward 
which all human endeavors are bent. 

In consequence of her own nature, a completely developed 
woman cannot be a self-supporting being, her constitution 
necessitating permanent care and survey. The appropriation 
of the woman by the man which results from love and which 
becomes effective by the mating, with its qualifications of ex¬ 
clusiveness and permanency and its consequences of wifehood 
and motherhood, is the foundation of the man’s duties toward 
his wife and children. 

There would be no obligations for the man toward the 
woman if the woman were similar to the man; that is to say 
if their intercourse did not affect the woman in another way 
than it does the man. If equality of sexes existed the woman’s 
laws of exclusiveness and permanency would be abnormalities, 
—mistakes of nature; but in nature everything is co-ordinated 
for the better end, and each animate being is provided with the 
needed attributes for its highest welfare which is, ultimately, 
its natural development. The woman is not an independent 
entity capable of evolving by itself to its full completion, so 
nature has organized her being in proper dependency on the 
male, from whom only her integral development can be ob¬ 
tained. 

It is because she is his property, it is because he can use 
her for his manly purposes, it is because her children are HIS, 
that man cares for his woman and her children, and feels it to 
be his duty to do so. When a man supports a woman who is 
nothing to him, it is benevolence, just as it would be to help 
an aged man, a cripple or an orphan, because there is no ap¬ 
propriation in these cases; no moral laws, except that of charity, 
can hold him to maintain this support: it is a case of choice, not 
of obligation. 


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Morally the human being is responsible for his free actions 
and their consequences. By the man's action the woman comes 
under her laws of exclusiveness and permanency, with the 
consequence of motherhood. Thus the man is largely respon¬ 
sible for the hampering or annihilation of the woman's ability 
for self-support, which inability is concomitant with pregnancy 
and the care of a child. 

The responsibility of her mate is an additional ethical reason 
for the exclusiveness of woman. The capacity of the mother 
for intercourse and child-bearing before the first child is adult, 
is a physical reason for permanency. The devotion with which 
children have to be cared for, is, besides exclusiveness and 
permanency, an enforcement of the woman’s passiveness. 

So during the woman's entire existence, appropriate mental 
states evolve in the woman together with her physical changes. 
They derive from the woman's organism, and thus dominate 
her entire personality in all its manifestations. 

Her physical and mental faculties are thus so co-ordinated 
for the greatest benefit of her entity in the pursuit of happiness 
which is the ultimate purpose of the law of Preservation of the 
Individual. 


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CHAPTER V. 

Sexual Respect. 

Although the woman is physiologically so organized as 
to be subjected physically and mentally to the predominance 
of man, this submission has its counter-balance in the respect 
that man, as a rule, entertains for woman, and particularly for 
the woman he loves. 

This respect is general and universal among men, if you 
except the degenerate negro race of which the woman is 
burdened with the slavery of heavy work,—the natives of some 
islands even renting their wives for the coaling of ships,—and 
also the Asiatics in their treatment of those of their wives 
who are supported only for the sake of their master’s pleasure. 
In other words, man ceases to respect woman when she has 
lost her privileges as woman and has been reduced to the fate 
of a beast of burden,—or when, deprived of her duties as wife, 
she has become a living toy. Milder instances of these two 
states of un-respected womanhood are not entirely uncommon 
in our western civilization. 

Respect and kindred feelings, as general sentiments, origin¬ 
ate in the opinion one has of the worthiness of a fellow being, 
and so the opinion that a man has of a woman’s feminine quali¬ 
ties engender his respect, which is proportionate to his belief in 
the woman’s moral value. The man’s opinion of a woman’s char¬ 
acter results from the ways the woman acts and speaks in 
regard to her femininity; this bears out in fact that woman’s 
virtue imposes respect. 

This general sentiment of respect is stronger in the man 
who loves than in the generality of men; for love, and I do 
not mean passion, although these two sentiments make in 
temperamental people an indivisible state of mind, cannot exist 
without respect. And is it not a fact of common observation 


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that the more a man loves a maiden, the more constrained he 
feels toward her? This is because of the high opinion he has 
of her modesty and her unblemished femininity. He feels it 
hard to tell, without hurting her, his desire of her, which, even 
in the bonds of Holy matrimony, she can satisfy only by the 
abandonment of her maidenly treasures of intimacy and 
modesty. He could generally by force, deceit or corruption, 
succeed in obtaining what he wants from the girl, but the man 
who loves values more the feelings of the woman toward him 
than the physical possession of her. This respect, by the path¬ 
ways of habit, is maintained even after the girl becomes the 
man’s wife. 

That the respect of the man for the woman is based upon 
the woman’s own morality is emphasized by the conduct of the 
average man toward another man’s wife and toward young 
ladies. His aggressiveness will not manifest itself unless he 
believes that the woman’s virtue is frail, or that the maiden’s 
curiosity has obliterated her modesty. The woman’s intuition 
of this sentiment of man accounts for the fact that the woman 
considers herself insulted by a certain kind of attentions. 

These are the relations between man’s respect and woman’s 
virtue, but besides the sexual respect, come consideration, 
which is marked by complacency, and deference, which induces 
politeness. Consideration originates in man from the thought 
of the frailness of woman, deference from his intuition of her 
sensitiveness. 

Consideration restrains man from taking advantage of per¬ 
sonal faculties or powers in order not to injure in body or 
mind, and to use these faculties and powers for the physical 
and mental advantage of the person concerned. It is confined 
to cowardice and servility when exercised toward man, but 
proceeds from refinement of nature when applied to woman. 
The man, in his ways of acting toward a woman, takes into 
account the nature of the woman, not his own power. 

Man is inclined to be deferential to woman because of her 


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sensitiveness and general temper. It takes an uncultured brute 
to use harsh and insulting language to a woman; and the use 
of coarse language, and the habit of using it, come to the 
average man only when the woman has shown by her behaviour 
that her sensitiveness and delicacy have disappeared. 

On account of these facts, we have to conclude that respect 
of man for woman, and its different manifestations,—politeness 
and chivalry,—find their origin in the abiding by the woman 
of her own natural laws. If woman respects her own nature, 
man will respect woman, and this regard concurs in great 
proportion in the preservation of the individuality of man and 
woman. 


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CHAPTER VI. 

The Woman and the Natural Law of Perpetuation 
of the Race. 

The natural attributes of the woman, which were shown as 
paramount for the preservation of her individuality, are still 
more needed when we consider the woman in her relation to the 
perpetuation of the race. 

The perpetuation of the race is a vaster problem than mere 
multiplication of individuals. It is an easy inference to say 
that the women, bearing the children, are the basic element in 
the perpetuation of the race, but this is indeed only the mate¬ 
rial part of woman’s contribution to the fulfilment of the 
second law of mankind. 

On a statistical viewpoint, a race can maintain itself numeri¬ 
cally only if each couple of adults brings up two children who 
pairing at puberty with two other adults bring up altogether 
in their turn four children, who mating with four others will 
have to bring up eight children, and so on in each generation 
the offsprings of one stem mating with other people, have to 
bring up twice their number to maintain the original strength 
of the population. 

If each couple for five generations produces only one off¬ 
spring, the dying out process would reduce a nation of 50 
million adults to 325,000, in about 150 years. 

But if each couple of adults should bring up three children, 
and, if each two of their descendants, after mating with other 
adults, would bring up the same number, each generation of 
adults would have increased one-third over the preceding gen¬ 
eration, so that after one hundred and fifty years, or after five 
generations of adults, a nation, originally of 50 million adults, 
would have become one of six hundred million. 

But the number of childern to be born in each family in 


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order to keep the country’s population from diminishing should 
be considerably greater than two for several causes, the main 
ones of which are: Infantile mortality, (nearly 10 per cent of 
the children of less than one year of age died in 1917 in the 
United States, and how many people died before reaching 
twenty years of age is not recorded, but must also be taken into 
account) ; sterile marriages and divorces, the latter cause wast¬ 
ing 112,036 couples or 224,072 adults in 1916; excess of men 
over women, both of more than 21 years of age. In 1910 there 
was a surplus of about two million and a half men, or the same 
number of unprocreative inhabitants of the United States. Add 
to these figures the number of bachelors and spinsters whose 
deficiency has to be compensated, and you will realize that a 
tremendous effort is required from the normal married people 
to keep the population of the country from decreasing. 

The normally constituted woman has thus to bear a greater 
burden than her share in the perpetuation of the race, mainly 
because of the deficiencies, mental and physical, of her fellow- 
women. 

Besides the statistical viewpoint, there is a physiological 
aspect in the case. 

The child is a reproduction of the original type of the race; 
it is endowed with its various characteristics and constitutes a 
composite of its father and mother minus their acquired attri¬ 
butes. 

In connection with these observations it may be recalled 
that woman is truer to type than man—that her brain under¬ 
goes less changes than the man brain. These conservative 
qualities help to preserve in the race its distinctive marks. I 
remember having observed in Furnes, Belgium, a group of 
women of pure Spanish type, which type had been maintained 
since the Spanish Domination through several centuries of 
inter-marriage with the Flemish indigenous population. 

The faculty of reproducing original types is one of the 
most precious in woman, for it rejuvenates the race at each 


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generation. Supposing that woman changed as much as man 
does, and that she transmitted to her children the acquired 
characteristics of the individuals,—the defects and imperfec¬ 
tions would accumulate from generation to generation, evolving 
the most diversified freaks and monsters, absolutely unable to 
live in a community, and fated for rapid disappearance from 
earth. Qualities would be acquired also. In the course of life, 
man or woman may have organs in perfect condition, but they 
never create more perfect organs, and generally are subject to 
degeneracy in some part of their organism. 

In consequence, Woman, to accomplish her share in the 
perpetuation of the race, must keep herself as much as possible 
from bodily or mental transformations, which endanger the 
reproduction of primitive types. 

In regard to this principle it is wise to keep in mind the 
invariable results of marriage between mentally unbalanced 
people or between physical misfits, where the woman is unable 
to reproduce regressive types. Nature has in general provided 
against monstrous progenity by elimination of the unfit, and 
by depriving of fecundity the woman who strays away from 
the original type, mentally or physically, as in the instances 
related here above. 

Children perpetuate the race provided they are healthy in 
body and mind. If woman’s health be impaired,—if her men¬ 
tality become deficient or her intellectuality obliterated, the 
children will suffer through the mother’s ailment for several 
generations. It is thus up to the woman to preserve the high 
standards of mankind at large and of the race in particular. 

It is in the younger years that the human being acquires 
his condition of health, his general moods, his habits of reason¬ 
ing, and it is then that he accommodates himself to the require¬ 
ments of civilization. 

His health before his birth depends upon the mother’s 
health, after it, from practical hygiene and later practical 
dietetics; his general moods are acquired through his mother’s 


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practical knowledge of psychology; his habits of reasoning 
from his mother’s good common sense; his manner from the 
example and teachings of his relatives. 

The result of all these influences make up the state of 
civilization of the nation, so that society relies upon the woman 
not only for the multiplication and preservation of the individ¬ 
uals, but also for the transmission of its acquired qualities, that 
is to say its civilization. It is through passiveness, self-sacrifice 
and love that the mother is able to care for her child, and it is 
by the same virtues that she is able to fit him to survive and 
to introduce him to civilization. 

These qualities of woman, which came into play for the 
individual preservation of the child as explained in the chapter 
on Motherhood, are thus determinative for the preservation of 
the race. 


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v, 


CHAPTER VII. 

Summary of Parts II and III. 

From this survey of woman’s nature and its relation to 
man, we may formulate, as follows, the natural status and laws 
of Woman. 

Physically, the woman is frailer but more graceful than 
man. She is attractive, appealing to the senses. 

Her peculiar organs, which occupy a very large part of her 
body, dominate her whole organism. The delicacy of these 
organs, the constant care they necessitate during maidenhood 
as well as during wifehood and motherhood, the momentous 
consequences of their development in the pursuit of happiness, 
make them the main object of the woman’s worldly existence. 

The woman is a normal and complete being only after she 
becomes a wife and mother. The manifestations of femininity, 
by its periodical functions, besides conception, bearing and 
suckling, extend over the greater part of the woman’s life and 
the entire period of vitality alloted to the human being. Her 
femininity calls for the passive organization of her individual¬ 
ity ; her maidenhood and her mode of fecundation demand ex¬ 
clusiveness with its mental correlatives of modesty and self- 
respect; her inability to support herself when fecundated, to¬ 
gether with her passiveness and exclusiveness, involves per¬ 
manency. 

Although possessed with the same intelligence as man, her 
smaller and more delicate brain does not allow the woman to 
exert as great cerebral activity as man. Her reasoning is 
less deep and accurate, and she is weaker in logic because it is 
harder for her than for man to hold a thought and scrutinize 
it in its different aspects; but she is wittier than man because 
the lesser localization of her nerve centers brings premature 
associations of ideas'. 


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The moral qualities of woman are: modesty,—which does 
not exclude a tendency toward exhibition of her personal 
charms,—self-respect, kindness, self-sacrifice, extreme expres¬ 
sion and variability of sentiments. 

Her will is less strong than that of man, and her persever¬ 
ance less extended because her nerves are weaker. 

Her actions are carried out by by-ways and subtilities, in 
keeping with her passiveness which results from attractiveness 
of appearance, relative muscular weakness and frailness of 
nerves. She does not use force to obtain the accomplishment 
of her wishes, but she exercises amiability, pleading, coaxing, 
and as a last resort she threatents to harm herself. These 
methods of acting would’ be despicable in man, because he is a 
being of aggression, but are in no sense condemnable in woman 
because her most effective weapons are her personal charms 
and moral action. 

Her influence over man originates in his respect for her 
moral character, in his admiration of her grace of features or 
in his enjoyment of her pleasantness of mood and temper. 

Love is an inherent faculty of the normal woman, and its 
consequences are indispensable to her full development. 

These general faculties are subordinated to her sexuality, 
and in normal conditions, directed so as to insure to her, health 
and victory in the battle of life. 

God did not make a mistake when He created Woman. He 
made the woman as she is for the greatest benefit of humanity. 
She cannot be changed and needs no artificial improvement. 
She is perfectly fitted to secure her own happiness and the 
happiness of her husband and children, if free and fair play 
is given to the natural functioning of her faculties. 

Her personal qualities which are co-ordinated for the pre¬ 
servation of her individuality, are the same that are needed for 
the perpetuation of the race. 


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PART IV. 

THE WOMAN AND THE FAMILY. 

CHAPTER I. 

The Home. 

We concluded the foregoing chapter by emphasizing that 
femininity is the main object of the woman’s existence, that 
all her successive developments proceed from her sexuality,— 
the proper functioning of which calls for passiveness, exclusive¬ 
ness and permanency, with their complements of modesty and 
self-respect. 

Modesty being woman’s essential virtue, being the faculty 
upon which depends her whole womanly career, the maiden 
should not be exposed to the danger of acquiring habits detri¬ 
mental to that sentiment. She ought therefore to be reared in 
surroundings that will not corrupt her mentality. She should 
live in a place where she is free from man’s aggressiveness and 
where she can take, privately and undisturbed, the care that the 
evolution of her femininity demands. 

To a wife, these surroundings are still more needed for the 
preservation of her sensitiveness and her instinct of propriety. 

For a mother, these surroundings are absolutely imperative, 
as well for herself as for her children. 

These surroundings are a place where the woman feels at 
liberty to act as her sense of femininity dictates. This must 
be a place of her own, managed for her own benefit; for it is in 
that place that all the notable incidents of her woman’s life 
will occur. That place may be big or small, but it should be 


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private in the whole meaning of the word,—it should, as a 
matter of fact, be a “Home.” 

To the maiden, her home is a castle, a protecting strong¬ 
hold, wherein she finds refuge after a venture into the wide and 
strange world, a mystic tower the threshold of which, you, who 
pass her in the street and want to tell her mysterious things, 
would not dare to cross if you did not intend to be good to her. 
The maiden’s home is a kind confessional where she may avow 
her little imprudences and receive a wanted and affectionate 
admonition. It is a sure place, where one finds a father’s pro¬ 
tection and a mother’s love and understanding. 

A child, and especially a girl, to feel at home must have 
its parents affection and protection. The girl needs to know 
that when her parents scold, they are not merely enforcing an 
established rule or expressing personal dislike and temper, 
but that they are taking care of her welfare because she is 
theirs, a little frail property whose wholesomeness and happi¬ 
ness are the constant purpose of their solicitude. It is because 
of the lack of sentimental motives in education by the whole¬ 
sale that orphanages, day-nurseries and boarding schools, even 
the most comfortable and the best managed, cannot take the 
place of the home. They are bodies without a soul, firesides 
without a hearth. 

When love comes, her home is still for the girl the safest 
and most appropriate place, where freedom is granted just 
in such proportion as to allow lovers to learn to know each 
the other, without endangering the girl’s honesty. 

The exquisite feminine modesty of the young woman can¬ 
not, outside of a private and secluded place, allow her husband 
to take the dainty liberties that will acquaint them sensually 
and lead to the ultimate forgetfulness and possession. So for 
them privacy, or in other words a home of their own, is a 
necessity. 

That home may be a poorly furnished room just as well as 
a mansion. The space and the furniture do not make the home; 


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its main qualification is seclusion from the outside world. 
It must be a place where husband and wife can kiss and love 
undisturbed; a corner where they are not restrained by the 
fear of incommoding other people; where no smiles or remarks 
will make them feel uneasy. 

And furthermore, a home is indispensable, and a private 
home at that, to permit them to live a normal life and to make 
smoothly their evolution from lovers into husband and wife. 
They have to acquire some habits of obeying one another so as 
to make them both comfortable and contented. The little 
defeats in this adjustment are quickly forgotten if kept 
secret, but the little hurts of masculine pride and feminine 
sensitiveness become severe wounds if other people are looking 
on and commenting. The future of newly wed people is 
moulded in the first few weeks of married life, and its happy 
shape will depend largely on the avoidance of outside influences, 
which in the generality of cases may be called the “mother-in- 
law” danger. 

Arid later, when the wife develops into a mother, the home 
becomes more and more her place of safety. A woman who is 
about to become a mother needs rest and calm. All disturb¬ 
ances and annoyances endanger her health and that of her child, 
and may even prove fatal to the life of both. This rest and 
calm the woman finds it in her home only, for only here can she 
keep away from people she does not want, and only here are 
strangers prevented from intruding into her daily life and inter¬ 
course. A mother, a sister or other sympathetic relatives will 
be there in proper time to attend, under her directions, to the 
many cares which her approaching motherhood would force her 
to neglect. 

The child born, the same state of things persists and re¬ 
quires the same disposition until the mother has regained 
sufficient strength to resume her habitual activities. 

With the growing up of the baby and the new duties it 
entails, the mother needs the same privacy as in other periods 


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of her life, and, in addition, freedom from all outside inter¬ 
ference with the raising of her child. 

A mother needs a home because she wants to take care of 
her child, that baby who is a property of her’s, a part of her¬ 
self. She is jealous of the baby just the same as she is 
jealous of her husband, and she wants to personally give it 
the proper attention and receive herself the due reward for 
her cares: Her baby’s smiles, kisses and love. A mother is 
fond of being told of her child’s prettiness, cleverness and 
manners, but see how restless she becomes when strangers re¬ 
primand or advise her child, or try to gain or use influence 
over it. 

It is well known in psychology that affection and love 
of the human being grow stronger in proportion to the free 
sacrifices made for the sake of the beloved one: We love more 
for what we do than for the good done to us. 

The mother has a rightful claim to the love, affection 
and obedience of her children. To keep these rewards of her 
pains and cares, she, who loves them best, must be able to 
keep them from the influence of strangers, and she can do so 
only in the privacy of the home. 

So the woman, be she maiden, wife or mother, is safely 
harbored only in the home, and she needs the home to accom¬ 
plish her two great laws of Self-Preservation and Perpetuation 
of the Race. 


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CHAPTER II. 

The Home-Maker. 

Every living being, from mollusk to man, has been fitted 
especially to accomplish its particular ends, and nature has 
not broken this rule for the woman. 

So woman has been provided with appropriate attributes 
helping her in the accomplishment of her destinies. These 
destinies call for a proper habitat,—the home, and her faculties 
tend to its making. 

Because the woman needs a home to undergo her different 
physiological changes,—because it is in her home only that 
she finds safety, liberty and comfort,—she is interested to 
make it as pleasant a place as the means at her disposal permit. 

Coincident with her desire for agreeable surroundings, her 
aesthetic sense presides over the arrangement of her rooms. 
The same instinct that made her tie a ribbon to her side-curl, 
when a little girl, makes her sew a double bow on that head- 
cushion, and the same artistic intuition that makes her find 
the becoming angle for her broad-brimmed hat helps her to 
determine the play of lights and shadows in the drawing room. 

The woman’s handicraft in the thousand utilities of private 
life, her quickness of thought and her alertness to act, which 
originate in her versatility, enable her to care for the multi¬ 
tude of details a household makes necessary. 

Visit bachelor apartments of young women and men, and 
you will see that even where a girl works all day long and has 
left only two or three hours to p>ass in her room in the evening, 
she still finds time to make it look tidy and comfortable. By 
many trifling accommodations always ready at hand, the girl 
is able instantly to adapt to the utmost of their convenience 
all new appliances she discovers, when the man either lets 


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everything go slovenly or acquires the mania for having things 
put a certain way. 

The woman will shift all the furniture of the house for 
any occasion at a moment's notice, and feel comfortable in 
the new arrangement, because her suppleness of mind and body 
allows varied and rapid movements. The path-ways of habit 
are stronger in man, the new order is a hardship to him. This 
is the reason why woman’s styles of dressing change so often 
in their general make, when man’s clothes keep their standard¬ 
ized parts. 

The woman’s sensitiveness which renders her particularly 
attentive to appearance, strengthens her inclination for per¬ 
sonal care. Little girls wash and dress their dolls; your sister 
remakes the knot of your neck-tie; your girl friend brushes 
off the dust on your sleeve. The woman as an expert on ap¬ 
pearances and on the means of improving them, is therefore 
an authority on hygiene, cleanliness and elegance. This in¬ 
stinct of the beautiful, which she needs first for the preser¬ 
vation of her own person, and the care of her children, is 
exercised also for the benefit of her husband, and gives her 
one more faculty which selects her for the realm of the home. 

The habit of the young girl to manage her little possessions 
is the first indication of the woman’s adaptability to the home, 
and one may feel inclined to find in this habit the origin of 
woman’s mastery in home management, but such adaptability 
comes from nature itself. It is a faculty co-ordinated with 
the ensemble of her entity which enables her to fulfill her 
mission on earth. 

But this home management is only the visible and material 
part in the making of the home. The woman’s function is far 
higher and important. The woman who is naturally gifted for 
the management of the home, is also the center of this place 
built around her to preserve her entity in all its changes. It 
is her place, and she arranges it for the accommodation of 
her activities. The home is fitted out for the woman, but the 


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woman herself, a passive being, is the attraction that makes 
home appeal to man. So the woman, making home pleasant 
and easy for herself, must make it comfortable for her hus¬ 
band, in order that there shall be no conflict between his desire 
of being with her and his need for relaxation and rest. 

A man’s comfort is often symbolized by an armchair, 
slippers, and a pipe, but that is a bachelor’s comfort, which 
even a travelling man can find in any place where he chances 
to stay over night. 

A married man’s comfort is his wife’s presence, and a 
home-like atmosphere is the exteriorization of the woman’s 
mentality. Home is empty, and no place of abode for a hus¬ 
band when his wife is away visiting mother. 

The home has to be filled with the woman’s personality, 
with the evidences of her charms, her taste, her wit, her love 
and character. 

Home is for the woman a place of her own. Home is for 
the man where his mate resides and where he can find a 
legitimate satisfaction of all his manly faculties, mental and 
physical. 


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CHAPTER III. 

Family Morality. 

Civilization curtails the freedom of personal activities, 
social life restrains it still more and so also does married 
life. 

Liberty must be granted to married people as far as 
compatible with the fulfilment of their mutual duties. For 
the observances of their laws, the collaboration of the mates 
is needed in accordance with the faculties of each of them. 

By organization of nature, which is the will of God 
materialized, the husband has received his wife as a property, 
and this for her own protection and their common welfare. 
Such appropriation entails authority which is tempered by the 
natural influence of the wife over her husband. This influence 
originates in the husband’s respect and love for his wife, 
which in their turn found their cause in the woman’s modesty, 
self-respect and personal charms. It is thus by the exercise 
of her femininity that the wife is able to act upon her husband 
and direct him toward her aims. 

If her desires tend to her own protection as wife, to a 
betterment in her appearance or health, to an improvement 
of home conditions, to the welfare of her children and her hus¬ 
band,—they are in conformity with the woman’s natural laws, 
and by striving for their realization the wife gives effective 
support to her husband. Such also is the case when she tries 
to remedy some defect in her husband, for it is a sad but 
indisputable fact that no one is perfect. 

If the woman’s purposes in life are such as vanity, pleasure 
or lewdness, they are selfish motives, contrary to the woman’s 
natural laws of self-sacrifice and modesty, and result in blunt¬ 
ing the husband’s love, or even in wrecking the lives of both. 

It is in the meaning here above expressed that it may be 


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said the woman makes her husband. In most cases the 
wife is responsible for her husband's character and value, and, 
consequently, for his business and social success or failure. 
When a man goes wrong, look for the woman, study his wife, 
and nine times out of ten you will find that she herself was the 
cause or the occasion of her husband’s misfortune, of which 
ultimately she and her children are the worst victims. 

When a man in the struggle for life, shows a constant and 
firm determination to succeed in a straight and honest way, 
praise his wife’s virtues; for a man becomes a crook to satisfy 
a bad woman (his wife or not), he gambles and takes risks 
for a heedless doll, but a man works for a real woman. 

Such are the results of woman’s influence, for good if she 
is a true and conscientious home-maker, for bad if she is the 
society butterfly, the selfish spender, the unreliable flirt or the 
ambitious associate aiming at the questionable publicity given 
to eccentric women. 

In other words, woman is a handicap to a man if she con¬ 
siders him, not as a husband, but as an object of exploitation, 
a bread-ticket. 

Whatever may be the woman’s moral value, the surest 
course for her to accomplish her purpose, is the woman’s way, 
—that is to say through sentimental action. 

The woman’s argument, from principles and facts, drifts to 
personalities, which her sensitiveness enlarges into offenses,— 
and the discussion ends in reproaches and wrangles. Authority 
is not a better means for her, because it would be useless with 
a man of character, and is irritating to the average man, so 
that the woman, who is unable to take a calm and decisive stand, 
feels need of resorting to excess of expression. Such tactics 
work only as long as the man respects the woman’s sensitive¬ 
ness but become ineffective and result in endless quarrels when 
consideration has been worn out by the woman’s repeated 
abusive language. 

But a woman is a master of sentimental strategy, instinc- 


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tively and candidly if she is good, cleverly and malignantly if 
she is heartless. Against woman’s sentimentality, the man who 
loves is helpless, the man who respects is disarmed, and both 
will have recourse to authority only in cases of extreme im¬ 
portance, so that in family life woman’s will is God’s will, if 
presented in a woman’s way. 

Because husband and wife have in themselves instinctively 
the qualities they need for good understanding, it may be said 
that if they fail, it is not because of the other party’s defects, 
but by reason of their own shortcomings. 

If a husband abandons his wife, it is a sign that the woman 
has been deficient either in mind or body. She has not been 
able to keep ( her husband’s love and respect; she has not been 
capable of accomplishing her laws according to which she had 
to accommodate herself to circumstances and correct her hus¬ 
band’s defects by moral support and sentimental action. 

If a wife deserts her husband, the latter shares her guilt 
because he has not maintained over her the ascendency which 
caused her to elect him, and because he has not exerted his 
rightful authority at the proper time. 

Most of the reasons given for divorce and separation can 
be summed up as estrangement between married people, for it 
is from this estrangement that comes habitual adultery, aband¬ 
onment, desertion and non-support. Cases of real cruelty are 
very scarce, and generally this excuse is only given to cover an 
unavowable desire for separation. Estrangement is a state of 
mind not resulting from physical repulsion but inciting to it,— 
its origin is entirely mental and therefore submitted to the 
will of man. Besides estrangement is not a sudden sentiment 
which an accidental occurrence can bring about,—it is the 
nurture of passing misunderstandings into an habitual state 
of hatred or indifference. As a mental state, estrangement is 
bred by auto-suggestion creating pathways of habit. 

The original cause of estrangement being an act of free will, 
it entails our responsibility for its consequences. Thus family 


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morality forbids auto-suggestions endangering the family life, 
and imposes upon married people the duty of banishing all ac¬ 
tions which may carry with them occasions for misunderstand¬ 
ing and estrangement. 

Some call their vagaries, “keeping abreast with the times” 
and invoke enfranchisement of the women to cloak their de¬ 
ficiency; but it really is only lack of sense of duty, shirking 
of obligations and disdain for engagements, which states of 
mind are indicative of the lowest degree of mentality amongst 
human beings. 

Liberty in these matters is limited by man’s and woman’s 
own laws, and by the rights of the other mate. In family life 
some self-sacrifice is the rule, and self-sacrifice is one of the 
standards of mental value of mankind. This self-sacrifice is 
not the abandonment of legitimate wishes, but the elimination 
of the easier ways when these are conflicting with the primor¬ 
dial duties of a man as husband and father, of a woman as 
wife and mother. 

Appropriation of the woman by the man is the foundation 
of the relations of husband and wife, and property of the 
children is the basis of the relations between parents and 
children. A mother loves her child because it is a segregated 
part of her; a father loves his wife’s children because they 
are “his.” But the different ways in which the parents co¬ 
operated in the procreation of the children modify their in¬ 
stinct of property and its modes of expression. 

Instinct of property, of which molecular attraction, eating 
and drinking are physical analogies, grows stronger in the 
proportion that its object touches more intimately our per¬ 
sonality and faculties. This instinct corresponds with pride 
in the measure that we, or our people, participated in the 
creation or maintenance of the object, and we love the latter 
for the gratification of our sentiments. 

So mankind is proud of the works of men. We feel that 
the Egyptian pyramids in some way belong to all of us; we 


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are proud of the race to which we belong; we love our country 
and are proud of its size, its strength, its achievements; we 
are proud of the family we come from; we are proud and 
jealous of our work when we think it worthy of us. What we 
possess becomes a part of us, we feel personally diminished if 
we lose it, and often risk our very life to preserve it. Little 
girls have died to save their dolls from destruction; men kill 
themselves out of despair when losing their fortunes. We are 
proud of our personal advantages and want to preserve them. 

In the scale of value of our possessions, the highest rank 
is given to what is pertaining more intimately to our person¬ 
ality. Thus the normal husband values most his wife who 
constitutes the completion of his individuality, and his children, 
—living reproductions of himself and his wife. 

Mother’s love is connected with the physiological state 
which, at a time, made her and the entity of her child a single 
being; while father’s love originates in the satisfaction of his 
pride of possession of mother and child, and receives its char¬ 
acteristics from man’s general instinct of property. 

The woman remains more identified with her child than 
the man, who, when his victory over his wife has been con¬ 
secrated by conception, remains physically separated from the 
child and bound to it only by sentiment. Thence the conse¬ 
quence that woman’s sensitiveness,—which worked for the joint 
protection of herself and her unborn child, living in her and by 
her,—remains extremely keen to the feelings of her children 
even after physical separation. 

A mother always forgives her children their faults, gener¬ 
ally conceals their guilt and often enters into complicity with 
her daughters. The woman’s sensitiveness causes her to con¬ 
sider her children’s actions from the latter’s own viewpoint 
and she shares their feelings. But the father regards his 
children’s behaviour from his own viewpoint of proprietor; he 
loves, protects and preserves his property. He corrects it when 


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it is wrong. But because his love for his children originates 
in the gratification of his pride as possessor, he is liable to 
disown” his sons and daughters when he deems them un¬ 
worthy of him. 

Because of his ownership of his children, he is entitled 
to exert over them a special authority combined with his child¬ 
ren's rights as human beings. 

Both parents do not view the mating of the children with 
similar sentiments. The father considers the marriage of a 
son as an increment of property, but being jealous of what he 
owns, the marriage of a daughter, which takes her from his 
direct authority to that of another man, is a loss. 

Because of his rights as proprietor, the father wants his 
daughter to marry a man meeting with his approval, intending 
to transfer his authority only to a man deserving it. 

For a mother her children's marriage is a painful separa¬ 
tion. And in the case of a daughter, the mother's anguish 
may range from a simple whiff of emotion to the deepest 
despair according to her appreciation of her son-in-law's moral 
value. 

The peculiar organism of the father and the mother dictate 
their attitude toward their children, and bring about different 
reactions in the latter. 

The mother's loving care, indulgence and companionship 
gain the love, confidence and comradeship of her children, who 
by nature depend on her. 

The father’s loving ascendency over their mother, his 
authority over the family raises in his children respect for his 
will, and loving pride in belonging to him. 

The perfect working of these psychologic influences 
secures to all elements of the family the position and functions 
that have been assigned to them: Wife and children are made 
for man’s purpose,—children conceive their mother as a provi¬ 
dence to them and their father as a proud defender. The hus- 


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band feels that his wife and children gratify his man’s calling 
and that their welfare and happiness are a need to him. 

The disruption of the family inter-dependency strains the 
relations between husband and wife and ruins or endangers the 
proper rearing and protection of the children. 

Thus the natural laws, proceeding from man’s and woman’s 
special organisms, are the rules which must govern the relations 
between husband and wife, and these rules become, for the 
protection and full development of each and all, the Principles 
of Family Morality in the intercourse between parents and 
children. 


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CHAPTER IV. 

The Family Unit and the Functions of Its Members. 

That the human being evolves is a patent fact. Woman's 
physiological and mental evolution has been briefly outlined 
in the foregoing chapters of this work, and a few glimpses 
of man’s evolution have also been given insofar as they 
relate to his intercourse with woman. Under the heading 
“Family Morality” we have found some of the ethical conse¬ 
quences of this evolution in man and woman, so that it is 
unnecessary to present any more illustrations of the changes 
brought about by the mating. 

We do not conceive a mated man and a mated woman as 
merely a man and a woman, but as husband and wife, which 
ideas imply, besides the notes of man and woman, the char¬ 
acter of their actual relations. The words husband and wife 
designate changed individualities. 

Individuality is the mode of existence of a being, and is 
enlarged, or restricted, by inherent or assumed conditions. The 
mistletoe has less individuality than the oak on which it grows; 
the oak, immovable, has less individuality than the bird which 
is able to repair to more propitious surroundings; the bird has 
less individuality than man, who has the power of accommodat¬ 
ing his surroundings to his desire. Among men, some have 
less individuality than others, because they have less efficient 
organs: A blind man has less individuality than a short-sighted 
man, and the latter in his turn has less individuality than a 
man with normal sight. A child has less individuality than an 
adult because it is dependent on others for its maintenance. 
Woman has less individuality than man because her constitu¬ 
tion is more affectable than man’s under any and all circum¬ 
stances. 


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So a being’s individuality is abridged in the proportion 
that its full existence is dependent upon the intervention of 
other beings,—and it becomes evident that man and woman 
who need each other in order to become and remain complete 
human beings, steadily lose their individuality as their natural 
laws impose greater obligations upon them. This is the reason 
why the mind conceives husband and wife as entities different 
from man and woman. 

By interweaving inextricably the reciprocal rights and 
duties of husband and wife into a fabric which can be torn 
apart but not undone, God has cast the mates into a unit 
beneficial to every and all parts of it. The completion of 
their being, man’s manly contentment, woman’s enjoyable and 
normal evolution through her three stages of life, children’s 
happy childhood and proper rearing can be secured only in 
the limits of the family unit. Being a natural consequence of 
the laws of Preservation of the individual and of Perpetuation 
of the Race, such a unit is a foundamental human habitat out¬ 
side which men and women may live only as abnormal crea¬ 
tures. 

Just as a man suffers when he hurts his finger, or is grati¬ 
fied by a pleasant taste, so the family body is affected by what 
touches one of its members,—and just as the human body 
benefits or suffers as a whole by the perfection or imperfection 
of one of its organs, so the family unit is satisfied or injured, 
either materially or morally, by the behavior and ability of 
its constitutive parts. 

Man, woman and child, elements of varied abilities and 
character, contribute to the family unit special and indispen¬ 
sable functions, the most evident of which are: The woman’s 
predominant part in the home-making, her faculty of bearing 
children, her ability to take care of them,—the husband’s per¬ 
sonality, which allows him to face the world in all walks of 
life and helps him in providing for the needs of his wife and 
children; his aggressiveness and his strength of will which 


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assist him in his endeavour to improve the family's social 
position. 

Amongst the less manifest, but not less definite functions 
of the mates, is the management of the family's resources. 
This problem, because it concerns the preservation of the in¬ 
dividuals as well as the welfare of the unit, must again be 
solved in the lights of the peculiar organs of man and woman. 

Femininity is an attractive and conservative principle, while 
masculinity is expansive and acquisitive. The woman is pleased 
when she receives, and she is distressed to part with what be¬ 
longs to her. Man likes to give to those of whom he is fond; 
he struggles to conquer. These differences are clearly shown 
by the following examples: Parturition causes pain and an¬ 
guish to the mother and so does the marriage of her children,— 
a little girl will not give up her old broken doll;—a young girl 
collects pieces of ribbon and empty boxes;—the woman fills the 
garret with refuse. A necktie, a silk handkerchief is a worthy 
gift from a girl, but a man’s gift is valued by what it costs him, 
either in work, perils or money. Man’s gifts are products of 
his efforts, woman’s gifts are personal favors of which the 
trusting of herself to a man is the greatest. 

As a rule, when a woman squanders money, it is for her 
own use; when a man does, it is for the entertainment, use or 
advantage of a woman. 

These few instances of the conduct and states of mind of 
man and woman can easily be traced to their source, the 
peculiarities of their sexes. 

By mating and motherhood, the woman identifies herself 
with her husband and children: with her husband to whom she 
belongs, and with her children who are segregated parts of her. 
Thus the wife in the family unit does not regard as lost 
what is spent on her children, her husband or herself, and she 
will, if left to the inclinations of her nature, go as far as self- 
denial to satisfy the needs of her family, which is in accordance 
with her passiveness. 


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So the woman, endowed with special qualities, is specially 
appointed by nature for the management of the family re¬ 
sources, which management, in a broad sense, is a part of her 
function of home-making. 

Man's freedom from the many peculiarities that make the 
home the safest place for woman, designates him for the out¬ 
side business of the family. His cold judgment, his clear de¬ 
cision and his tenacity help him to deal with strangers against 
whom he has to defend the family’s interests. Because of his 
aggressiveness and spirit of enterprise, man’s function is to 
provide for the needs of the family unit and to improve its 
status;—because of her passiveness and conservativeness, 
woman’s function is to manage the family’s resources. 

Man and maiden enter the family unit in their integrality. 
Their individuality is merged in the family entity and is recog¬ 
nized only by its special functions. After mating, nature allows 
the mates only common ends and interests, the family’s wel¬ 
fare to which each of them is bound to contribute the whole of 
his or her ability. 

The written laws to be just and not to imperil the welfare 
of mankind, must follow the natural law of humanity. They 
must be like corner-posts, showing the straight path to the 
traveler of life, and depriving him of their services if he 
wanders into the wilderness. Civil laws must repeat the dictates 
of nature that husband and wife owe all of their ability to the 
family unit. 

This ability of the mates includes not only their functions, 
but also their persons, their personal properties and belongings. 
Because mates have no longer a separate individuality, they can 
no longer have individual property. Their property, like every¬ 
thing else of them, must be merged for the benefit of the unit 
as a whole. 

The argument that merging of property on a family basis 
would cause endless trouble when people want to part, is wrong 
in itself,—for in parting mates break their natural law, ruin 


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the social equilibrium, and the law, which may ignore wrong¬ 
doers, should not help the latter, that is to say these who part, 
but should favor those who stand together in adversity as well 
as in prosperity. 

The woman of morality and character, bearing her husband’s 
children, should not feel as if she were a hired servant who can 
be dismissed with alms called alimony, and should not be treated 
as a tiresome mistress who has ceased to please. Neither must 
a husband feel like a supported man if he marries a wealthy 
bride. He should step into marriage with the ascendency and 
prerogatives of man in matrimonial life. 

These two objectives can be reached only by community 
and indivisibility of the property of married people. This 
community emphazises for both their responsibility in the 
common future. 

Community and indivisibility of the property of the parents 
is a right also for their children, because parents owe their 
children not only proper maintenance and education, but as 
high a station in society as can be secured for them. It is the 
right of each child to participate in the property of its parents, 
just as it is the duty of the children to support their parents in 
case of need. 

By forming a family unit, nature shows again the same 
consistency as in her other manifestations, and tends toward 
the welfare of all the members of the family through the free 
development and play of the special faculties of man and 
woman. 


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CHAPTER V. 

The Family Unit, the Nation and the State. 

A short survey of the history of the old world shows very 
plainly that nations have their birth, their life, their death. 
The Assyrians, the Medes, the Persians, the Egyptians, the 
Greeks and the Romans were once most powerful nations, 
dominating almost the whole of the world known at their time, 
but after a while they faded out so utterly that practically 
nothing remains of their races. 

They had sprung out of a small tribe or colony, had grown 
in number, maintaining a proud and enterprising spirit, until 
riches and power made them lose their old virtues and crumble 
under the assaults of younger nations still in a stage of semi¬ 
barbarism, but which had increased in number and strength. 

Such has just been for the last few years the case in Europe. 
Germany is the younger race of the old continent. Her popula¬ 
tion had increased twice as much as that in the older countries 
and had burst out in this war in an attempt to find new room to 
spread the overflow of her people. Had it not been for her 
prolificness, that country would never have been able to put up 
a tremendous struggle of five years. 

The power of Germany lays in her birth-rate, and if any¬ 
thing can save her, it will be the maintenance of it, for the 
birth-rate is the scale on which the vitality of a nation can 
be measured, no matter what may be the economic, military 
and geographic conditions of the country,—and the birth-rate 
is in direct relation with the family spirit. 

History shows that, at the beginning, all nations were but 
families scattered over vast areas of territory. Each of these 
clans lived under a paternal management in a state of nature 
progressively regulated by customs. This was a social organ¬ 
ization having as its immediate and ultimate purpose the main- 


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tenance of the members of the clan by such mediums as the 
forming of hunting and fishing parties and the storing and dis¬ 
tributing of food and clothing supplies,—in brief, doing on a 
somewhat greater scale, what every household in the city and 
the country does nowadays. 

Without written laws, authority belonged to the father, 
and the rules for intercouse between the members of the unit 
were the natural laws of mankind. As a matter of fact there 
were held some kinds of councils, in which the father and his 
kinsmen discussed and planned the community's affairs, just as 
at the present time husband and wife debate the choice of a 
new apartment or the purchase of new bedroom furniture. 
The father’s precedence over such councils was of a purely 
family or social character, because it resulted from a natural 
impulse of respect toward him. 

When the elders died out, and when the family had grown 
into a tribe, the same social character of the tribal chief’s 
authority persisted so long as the members of the tribe, still 
unorganized, grouped themselves around their kinsmen of 
stronger personality and greater ability. 

Numerous instances of this social instinct are still patent 
in the civilization of today, and particularly amongst people 
living in more or less lonely places,—such as the forest and 
mountain districts. Traits proceeding from that same instinct 
are not uncommon among the most emancipated city people. 
Grown-ups still listen to the advice of their parents, and all, 
in case of trouble, seek refuge with father and mother or 
consult an elder brother or sister. This interdependence cannot 
be eradicated from social intercourse, because it is an inclin¬ 
ation of human nature that makes us confide in stronger per¬ 
sons than ourselves. It makes the child grasp its mother’s 
skirt or embrace its father’s leg when some unusual event 
frightens or disturbs it. It makes the young girl confide her 
faults to her mother, although she knows that a deserved scold¬ 
ing will be imparted. 


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As the tribe grew more numerous and the elders disap¬ 
peared, leaving several groups of descendants each headed by 
men of strong personality, the latter, keeping social control 
over their respective groups, entered into competition for the 
general direction of the tribal affairs, thus inaugurating a 
political statute. 

With the advent of new generations swelling the tribes 
into nations, with material progress extending the scope of 
public life, the political power or government added to its 
importance and strength. The head of the state, who had been 
elected by his peers, or social heads of the family groups, en¬ 
deavored to lessen the authority of the latter’s councils and 
destroy the influence which their prominence in the family 
groups secured them. 

The struggle between the political organization or state 
and the social organization, as represented by the nobility, 
was particularly violent in France, where the latter did not 
originate from the native population as, for instance, in Ger¬ 
many, but had settled in the country following the conquest of 
Gaul by the Franks. 

The kings, political hereditary heads of France, constantly 
tried to abase the council of their peers, the nobility, or social 
hereditary heads of family groups, and had practically suc¬ 
ceeded, when the French revolution of 1779, which its authors 
believed was creating a new order of things, continued to dis¬ 
organize the social order, destroying not only the prominent 
families, but attacking the family itself for the benefit of the 
political establishment,—policies which all succeeding govern¬ 
ments have since then systematically pursued. 

As isolation was gradually forced upon the social elements 
of the nation, the political institution grew in force, arrogating 
to itself the rights of which it deprived the social order that had 
been vested with them by nature. 

In this process of disorganization and usurpation we have 
seen primogeniturship disappear entirely from modern legisla- 


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tion, except in the English peerage, and natural guardianship of 
children taken away from the next of kin. We have seen the 
dissolution of guilds and fraternities, which brotherhoods and 
syndicates now try to replace. We observe the institution of 
divorce and the disposition of the children by courts. Every 
day there are instances of social disputes between workers and 
employers settled at the discretion of the government under 
laws enacted by political representative bodies. Numberless 
committees are appointed by political officeholders and are in¬ 
quiring into and probing social activities. People are sent to 
prison for their disapproval of political institutions. 

Consistently with governmental policies tending toward 
the isolation of individuals and with the taking over of the 
social rights of the groups,, the state, straying from its status 
as an organism created for the service of the collectivity, con¬ 
siders itself as an entity for the service of which society is 
made, and aims at the appropriation of the individual. 

Sporadic reactions against the overgrowth of state power 
occur in all countries of the western hemisphere where the 
fundamental principles of government are practically the 
same, and the Civil War was but an instance of it in the United 
States. 

Among the white nations, state appropriation of the in¬ 
dividual manifests itself by compulsory education, by military 
training and conscription, by regulations fixing age and con¬ 
ditions in which people may marry, and by the granting of 
divorces and separations, by the issuance, withholding or can¬ 
cellation of passports, by the sending of boys and girls to in¬ 
stitutions and reformatories, and by the imprisonment of drug- 
addicts. 

Bolshevism, which people rightly accuse of destroying 
liberty, has but applied the same principle of state appropria¬ 
tion of the individual in its organizations of labor and mar¬ 
riage. A bolshevik mating is like a pairing of cattle. It ignores 
the natural laws of mankind which impose duties and rights 


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upon the mates. This marriage is but the writing down of 
the names of a male and a female on a book, and a Bolshevist 
divorce is obtained by erasing these names,—you may compare 
it with the registration of a couple in a hotel. Further appro¬ 
priation of the individual by the state is provided in the 
delivery to the state of the child born of these sham marriages. 

As far as the individual is concerned, all modern govern¬ 
ments tend to isolate the individuals still more from one an¬ 
other, in order to re-enforce their absolute power, and so 
politicians and business men, socialists and bolshevists, all 
foster their ambitions and designs upon the disruption of the 
fundamental social organism: The Family Unit. 

Because of its absorption of social rights and functions, 
because of its erection into a dominant entity, the state has 
drifted from its original office of representing social units 
to that of a representative of a chaos of the most varied and 
conflicting interests, and has become antagonistic to the social 
order which it is supposed to co-ordinate. 

Thence the general social unrest that has grown all over the 
white countries and the rapid dissatisfaction of the peoples 
with their newly erected governments. The trouble is that 
these governments are erroneously based on artificial principles 
instead of being organized according to the dictates of the 
natural laws of mankind. 

A philosophical study of history shows that the political 
power should rest primarily in the representation of the family 
units, that the control of social order by a political government 
should be abolished because it is an usurpation, and that this 
usurpation is the fundamental cause of the present day up¬ 
heaval of human society. A practical survey of the relations 
between the nation and the family unit leads us to concur in 
these conclusions. 

Single people concentrate their efforts upon their own 
personal welfare. They live for the present and enjoy all by 


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themselves the benefits of their labor. Their aims are selfish 
even in their deeds of mercy. 

The bachelor, man or woman, and the divorcee are parasites 
tolerable only when not interfering with the normal growth 
and welfare of the nation,—they are nuisances if they do, and 
at any rate they are only of any use by restoring their wealth 
to the community when they die. 

The family of today makes the generation of to-morrow, 
and insures the perpetuation of the race. Let the family spirit 
disappear in the native population, and the latter will fade out, 
for the sole benefit of new people implanted in the country, 
where they will form a new race. 

The family being the only means of the perpetuation and 
progress of the nation, the family unit must be recognized as 
having the main legitimate interest in all measures and decisions 
that concern the future of the nation. 

The acts of the government, in politics and in social life, 
engage the responsibility and the welfare of the future genera¬ 
tion ; the results of the mistakes of our time will be the burden 
of our children, and the benefits of our foresight will be their 
inheritance. The political order,—which is presumed to pre¬ 
side over the destinies of the country,—has no right to imperil 
or over-burden the future of the nation for the sake of present 
or individual advantages. 

The bachelors and divorcees contribute in no way to the 
nation’s future, and have thus no right to decide on matters that 
will engage the responsibility of the coming generations,— 
effective rights always corresponding to actual duties. As 
isolated personalities, bachelors and divorcees have their rights 
limited to the individual protection which pertains to civil laws. 

But parents have the right and the duty to safeguard their 
children. They have besides a natural inclination to secure 
the future of their descendants,—the father by his progressive 
work, the mother by her self-sacrifice. 


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The political vote should thus be restricted to the family 
unit, and expressed through the husband and father whose 
functions are to connect the family with public life. The 
father is the only rightful voter in political matters because of 
his duties in regard to the perpetuation of the race, because of 
his abilities in matters of administration, and, finally, because 
of his natural inclination to secure an improved status for his 
children. 


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PART V. 

THE WOMAN IN PUBLIC LIFE. 

CHAPTER I. 

The Woman’s Career. 

The woman’s organism making her efficient in private oc¬ 
cupations, her energy tending toward the care of husband, 
children and home, her interests, purposes and desires being 
common with those of her husband, she cannot find any 
reason to compete with man in business or public life. 

One might object that in some parts of Europe, and parti¬ 
cularly in Finland, Serbia and Roumania, women are exten¬ 
sively employed in all kinds of work, in the fields, mines and 
railroads, in offices, waterways and street-cleaning. But such 
status of women was brought about by wars and revolutions 
which depleted the male population of these countries, thus 
depriving the women of mates who would have given them 
support and would have contributed in the development of their 
womanhood. But the case is just the reverse in the United 
States, where the number of men over 21 years exceeds by 
about three million the number of women of the same age. In 
other words, there is in this country on acute need of woman¬ 
hood. Women are needed here in the capacity of woman, so 
that there is no excuse for the commercialization of women 
on the ground that they have to support themselves because of 
the difficulties of mating. There should not be in this country 
a single self-supporting woman, unless she be unfit for mating. 

It is of course to be admitted that some girls, by accidental 


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conditions, are temporarily compelled to make a living for 
themselves, but in fact it has become a custom for girls to go 
out to work regardless of the necessity of so doing. Working 
girls should be exceptions, and only individual exceptions, not 
to be put forth as a ground on which to build an organization 
endangering their natural evolution as normal beings. 

The girls who are obliged to go to work are the only class 
of working girls who deserve consideration. They have a 
right to the protection of society in order to preserve their 
womanly faculties, and more than any other class of people 
they are entitled to help, which should be extended so as to 
relieve them of their heavy responsibilities in the support of 
dependents, if these responsibilities are the reasons that subject 
them to the thraldom of salariat and that deprive them of the 
enjoyment and nobility of wifehood and motherhood. 

Women not being driven into business by the lack of oppor¬ 
tunity for marriage, it will be of some interest in a latter part 
of this work to find out whence come the hidden forces that 
rush women and girls into the destructive grind of the business 
machinery. 

Self-supporting women are either working girls or business 
women. The first is a victim of social conditions, the second 
is a victim of social delusion. 

“Many of our girls go out to work,” says Superintendent 
of Schools C. A. Kidd, and we may add that the work these 
little school girls are able to do is only factory, shop or store 
work. They have to toil very hard to earn very little. When 
a girl of 14 or less goes to work, it means that her family are 
poor people, and living under conditions rendering family life 
scarcely possible. Mother, a cook, a scrub-woman or elevator 
operator, is out to work and cannot keep tidy the uncomfortable 
rooms and the shabby furniture. Small children, unwashed 
and hungry, complete the scene of the little working girl's 
home coming. Father being dead, incapacitated or simply 
lazy, is somehow ineffectual as provider for the family unit. 


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These circumstances give the little girl a distorted idea of the 
home. She wants to get away from all that, and where will 
she go if not to the dance-hall, the Park or Coney Island? 
Besides, as these girls have to keep up their menial work for 
years, they grow up without any practice or teaching pertaining 
to home-making. These girls, and those who at 16 or 18 leave 
high-school to go down-town, form the great mass of the work¬ 
ing-women. 

The girls who enter the business world after some more or 
less efficient college courses are the best trained to obtain, after 
some difficult times, a sufficient or decent living. 

The former have the destiny of filling menial positions of 
which physical discomfort is the main feature, and lack oppor¬ 
tunity to become proficient in home-craft which would enable 
them later to do well with little means. The latter begin their 
business career at the period of life when the answer to the 
call of their womanhood should be their sole preoccupation. 
Both are handicapped for life. 

At this critical moment, the girl is tossed about by desire 
and fear. Her awakened femininity yearns for a mate, her 
fear of the future directs her toward public life. As it always 
happens, as soon as she sets her mind to devote herself to busi¬ 
ness, an eligible man comes along and she fights him until he 
goes. But then comes the aftermath of the temptation and the 
regret at not having succumbed. Business becomes a secondary 
matter; opportunities pass and after a few years of hesitation 
and anguish the girl finds herself an end-of-season sale for 
matrimony and but half experienced as a business girl. 

Woman's organism accounts again for this particular per¬ 
plexity, which is a struggle between woman’s sentimentality and 
nature and the prevailing civilization, and brings about the 
result that woman is made inefficient both as a woman and as a 
worker. 

Therefore, girls, in a general way, consider business only 
as a transitory occupation, and accordingly they give to it 


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as little attention as possible. When they feel the need 
of more money, they sometimes think of improving their 
position and start some business course, which they seldom 
complete, and continue to drift aimlessly from one position to 
another. 

Business appears to them as an expediency, which is easy 
to realize when we consider what must be understood by a 
calling and a career. 

The “calling” is the object of life for which the human 
being's faculties are especially adapted, and the calling of 
any normal woman is unavoidably wifehood and motherhood. 
The “career” of the human being is the specific course of 
action or occupation forming the object of one's life, and the 
career of a woman is home-making with the object of a 
woman’s existence—her full and happy development. All 
other achievements are but incidents and waste of energy, if 
they are not a contribution to the accomplishment of the 
woman’s natural laws. 

Man’s calling is to be a husband and father, and his career 
in public life is but a means to obtain the achievement of his 
aims,—the raising of a family. His career is not an end but 
an instrument, it is the performing of his functions in the 
family unit. 

The woman who has not a woman’s calling is a deficient 
being; the woman who has not made good in her woman’s 
career is a failure; and neither is entitled to put forth claims 
for woman’s rights and privileges. 

When woman has proven herself a failure, let society help 
her toward self-maintenance as it does the aged indigents and 
the cripple. Mankind should not permit the social crime of 
deviating the young girl from her natural calling to an arti¬ 
ficial object of life,—self-support. For self-support of women 
violates the natural law of Perpetuation of the Race, and be¬ 
sides the coaching of a girl for a life conflicting with her 
woman’s calling is an offense against the Law of Preservation 


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of the Individual. Such a course may be compared to the 
madness of putting a child in braces in anticipation that it 
might break its legs. 

Industry and business are not results of woman’s activities. 
They are results of man’s work and progressive mind. They 
were conceived and worked out in man’s ways, and they are as 
strange to woman’s nature as children and house cares are 
foreign to a man’s faculties. You would have to force a man 
out of his manly faculties to make him feed and bathe the baby, 
just as you have to force a woman out of her natural abilities 
to train her for industry and business. 

To succeed in any kind of business or enterprise, exclud¬ 
ing literary and artistic work, poise of mind, neatness of judg¬ 
ment, decision, self-confidence and strength of will are the 
essential requirements. These qualities, in a greater or lesser 
degree, are as common in man as they are unusual in woman. 
Woman, sentimentally dominated, is highly excitable, she is 
either inconsiderate and quick, or irresolute and wavering. 

Sentimentality and sensitiveness, which she needs as a 
woman, are obstacles in business. The delicacy of feminine 
nature cannot stand without injury the harshness and rudeness 
of the struggle for existence. Her sensibility makes of partial 
failures personal affronts; and such also is the feeling of the 
most refined classes of men, who, unable to bear a rebuff with¬ 
out deep humiliation, would rather renounce an obtainable 
advantage than face a renewed refusal. It is a case of delicacy 
of nerves. 

As soon as the woman is subjected to the constant worries 
and strife of business, the fineness of her features disappears, 
a hard strained look taking its place. But see a man’s face. 
It is less finely shaped than that of a woman, but the hardening 
that life brings along does not destroy its good aspect, and 
rather adds to the manly expression woman wants to find in 
man. The same struggle that strengthens man as man degrades 
woman as woman. 


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Cool-blooded women, who are the most apt to be successful 
in business, are lacking in sensibility. They lack also human 
kindness, and do not understand their own sex any more than 
they understand the mentality of man. 

Cool-bloodedness in woman, when natural, is generally con¬ 
nected with defects of the sexual organs making her unable 
to reproduce, and indifference is but a symtom of sterility, 
not an indication of superior womanhood. 

Theoretically it would mean the end of humanity to succeed 
in modeling all women on this same standard, and it would 
be practically impossible because the generality of girls are 
normally constituted. 

Some girls have assumed a mannish character, and some 
of them have even succeeded in acquiring man’s habits, but, as 
some one described it recently in a Sunday magazine, business 
girls who have reached the age of 30 or 35 years and who, by 
hard work, have secured a comfortable position in business, do 
still feel, inwardly, the craving for husband and children. 
Their habits, however, have perverted their mentality and make 
them restless and uncomfortable at home, where, after business 
hours, they would like to find relaxation and tenderness. 

Their habits of sternness make them unresponsive to the 
average man, and the man of great character does not care to 
produce in them the sentimental storm which would restore 
them to sensitiveness. These girls’ mentality suffers an en- 
cystment while their sexual organs by age grow less and less 
flexible and unfit for procreation, as well as for sensual en¬ 
joyment. 

Bored by their loneliness and unable to accommodate them¬ 
selves to matrimonial life, they are a waste of humanity be¬ 
cause they squandered in foreign activities the years of vitality 
imparted to them. 

Nature is everywhere the great ruler and her dictates may 
not be ignored. Do not try to impose upon man or woman 


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a career opposed to his or her calling, for you will succeed only 
in harming both. This is true in spite of some monetary ad¬ 
vantages that a woman’s work may secure, for nature is ulti¬ 
mately bound to resume its course. You ruin what you con¬ 
struct against Nature’s laws,—you cripple what you breed in 
unappropriate places or under unadapted conditions. 


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CHAPTER II. 

Political Rights and the Woman. 

The rightful principle of equality has been so often called 
upon to combat prejudice that we readily assent to it when a 
social problem is put under its light, without questioning if 
there really is equality. So we are told that woman is not in¬ 
ferior to man, that she is equal to him, and therefore, as a 
matter of justice, she should obtain the same rights,—and this 
appeal to the conscience of man very often carries away the 
judgment of well balanced minds. 

Truly the woman is not inferior or superior to man. She is 
not his equal either,—she is simply different. She is different 
physically, mentally and intellectually,—and it is well for her 
and for man that she be so. She needs to be different from man 
in order to perform what God has created her for, to accom¬ 
plish that function which she alone is able to execute,—the Per¬ 
petuation of the Race. 

This difference between man and woman entails different 
positions in the machinery of public life. 

You would surely consider as a fool the engineer, who, 
constructing a motor car, would put the wheels on the roof 
and the motor on the driver’s seat. If all the mechanism of 
this car is connected, the motor will work and the wheels will 
turn, but the car will not do what it is made for,—that is, to 
ride. The engineer shows himself a fool because he did not 
put every part of his car' in its right place. So will a govern¬ 
ment, if it does not put in their right place the parts of society. 
After his tryout our engineer will have to put things in place 
again, having only wasted time, material, money and energy. 

So the question that comes to us now is: What is the 
woman’s status in regard to public life? 


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Public life has two distinct parts,—social life and political 
life. 

To social life pertain the relations between fellow-country¬ 
men, between husband and wife, between parents and children, 
employer and employee; between real estate owner and tenant; 
between customer and merchant, and so on. 

To political life pertain the relations of citizen to the city, 
county and state, of state to state and of nation to nation. 

As most of the modern civilized countries are now organ¬ 
ized, social life is under absolute control of political factions. 

Legislative bodies, executive power and judicial corps 
emanate from the nation, but from the nation politically con¬ 
sulted. These three agencies are elected by the citizens as 
citizens. A man votes because he is a citizen, not because he 
is a husband, a father, an employee or a real estate owner. 
These qualifications, which are social qualifications, do not give 
him the privilege of any kind of vote. Thus the voters for 
governmental agencies are political voters. 

Political representatives, office holders and voters are con¬ 
trolled by political parties. Political parties are controlled and 
financed by private interests, and alleged to be justified under 
the pretence of public welfare. 

Legislative bodies, executive powers and judicial corps 
regulate social as well as political life and enforce the laws 
that direct them. 

Social life, unrepresented, is ruled by political represen¬ 
tation. 

Each citizen votes, has only one vote and one kind of vote. 
The state, the city and boroughs concentrate in themselves all 
the organs for the working of social life, and have the duty of 
protecting simultaneously the most varied and opposed inter¬ 
ests. Therefore, in the general administration of public affairs, 
a single man participates with equal prerogatives in the making 
of laws and regulations in which only married men have inter¬ 
est and concern. A bachelor has as much to say in the educa- 



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tion of your children as yourself, and a factory owner, whose 
only aim is to make money out of child labor, is on the same 
footing with a father for the protection of boys and girls. 
Thus we have not equitably represented the different interests 
of the citizens. We have political franchise but no social repre¬ 
sentation or organization. 

The political vote being the sole medium by which the 
people obtain representation, the politicians have made of it 
their goal, and they present the political administration as the 
panacea for all social ills. From this was brought into being 
the woman’s suffrage movement. 

I will not incriminate all statesmen by saying that many 
leaders are in favor of suffrage for women in the hope of 
adding to the number of their followers and by that means 
making more secure their re-election. But I affirm it to be 
so for the politicians who make their living out of politics, 
political positions and advantages. This was plainly shown 
by the eagerness of the politicians to have the women voters 
join the existing political parties. 

Suffragists pretend to remedy all social evils by the en¬ 
franchisement of the women,—but a woman’s vote is just as 
much a political vote as that of a man. It elects a politician just 
as a man’s vote does, and the inevitable ways of the politicians 
are to hold social life under political domination. 

Social representation alone can secure the enforcement and 
control of the working of social laws. Social laws are tools for 
the unscrupulous ambition of political women, as for political 
men, and these laws will be in jeopardy as long as social rights 
are not given recognition. 

These are not the main reasons for keeping women out 
of political life. The very reason lies in the woman herself, 
in conditions of common welfare and in the future of the race. 

In the particular case of the woman, Preservation of the 
Individual includes all means of protection so that she may 
bloom to her full and perfect development. 


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The natural development of a girl is to grow fromi maiden¬ 
hood to womanhood and then to motherhood, to which end she 
must preserve to its fullest extent her femininity. She must be 
safeguarded through maidenhood and afterward must become 
and stay an integral part of the family unit as wife and mother, 
in order to fulfill her life function of perpetuating the race. 

The state's duty is to protect the woman who follows 
woman's ways, and give her every encouragement possible. 
It is wrong that the law should favor some women (even if 
they were in the majority), who cast away the call of nature to 
step into neutralism, placing personal ambition and pretense 
above nature's laws, and imperilling by their delusions the 
future of the race. 

In consequence of her nature, her own will or her short¬ 
comings, the woman comes under one of the following classes: 

The maiden, by nature, comes into the first class. To her 
the state owes protection,—that is to say preservation of her 
morals and health, and educational training to fit her for an 
efficient woman's life. The maiden has her rights by nature, 
by the sole virtue of her existence, because she is the root of 
the next generation. Upon her depends largely the destiny of 
the country. 

In the second class comes the wife and mother, who, as a 
part of the family unit, has a right to protection and help. 
In the same class comes the widowed mother who fulfills her 
duties. These women have special rights co-related with the 
loyalty they display in regard to their obligations. 

Women of the third class are characterized by their short¬ 
comings, personal or circumstantial, which have prevented their 
full development to womanhood. Although of woman’s form, 
mind and intellectuality, they have not the proper qualifications 
that would entitle them to women's rights. They are socially 
deficient and useless in the national scheme of perpetuation of 
the race. 

Just logically as we must have political rights only so far 


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as we contribute to the perpetuation of the race, so these girls, 
as well as men bachelors, must have their rights limited to the 
preservation of the individual, which pertain to social life. 
They may have, as well as men, qualifications as laborer, real 
estate owner, tenant or employee and must have representation 
in these qualities, but they should not be given the right to 
direct the nation’s decisions in matters concerning the future 
of the nation to which they are unable or unwilling to con¬ 
tribute. 

They are partially deficient and must be treated as such. 

The fourth class is made up of the violators of woman’s 
natural laws. These women violate the law of Preservation of 
the Individual in its application to women, either by trans¬ 
gressing its rule of exclusiveness and permanency, as do the 
prostitutes and the “much married matrons,”—by preventing 
their own full development as do those who practice birth con¬ 
trol and abortion, or they violate the law of Perpetuation of 
the Race by estranging themselves from their husbands, by 
neglecting their obligations as mothers and abandoning their 
children to paid servants or benevolent institutions. In other 
words, they refrain from answering their calling or from mak¬ 
ing a home for their husband and children. These women are 
socially guilty. Not being willing to perform their functions 
as women, they should not be permitted to avail themselves of 
any of woman’s prerogatives to claim for themselves special 
rights as women. They cannot pretend to represent woman¬ 
hood. 

Because they forsake their natural duties and social status, 
the women of this class have no right to help and protection 
outside of the common law. Their shortcomings and misdeeds 
are the results of their own free will and their position in 
social life may be compared to that of habitual criminals. 

This class includes the childless woman who relinquishes 
her woman’s duties through laziness or vanity; the divorce 
maniacs who hide their prostitution under the legal shield of 


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the marriage license; the scandal mongers who beg for un¬ 
wholesome publicity by eccentricities and the exhibition of un¬ 
balanced minds; social climbers in search of tyrannic power 
over wives and children through the agencies of protective and 
aid societies; and, finally, all those who are in quest of public 
offices for the sole purpose of obtaining the personal advantages 
coupled with them. 

All these are parasites of humanity. They may be tolerated 
when there is an overflow of goods that would waste unneces¬ 
sarily unless used, but they are evil weeds to be pulled out and 
thrown away if they use the nutritive juice that human plants 
need to grow up strong and healthy, and to bear flowers and 
fruits. 

Parasites have no political rights of their own, and far less 
should they be allowed to put up their own state as the stand¬ 
ard on which to model the forthcoming womanhood. 

Therefore the only women who have rights as such are 
those who possess them by nature as the maidens, or those who 
acquire them by discharging their duties as wives and mothers. 

Maidens and mated women have their interests and aims in 
common with the father and husband because they are unable 
to fulfill properly their natural laws if detached from the family 
unit. 

Because she has been, for her own benefit, placed under the 
dominance of man, and this by nature,—because her passive¬ 
ness, her sensitiveness and her weakness of nerves will put 
her at a disadvantage for intercourse with men other than her 
husband,—the wife lacks the proper qualities to represent the 
family unit. 

The representative of the family unit (the unit comprehends 
the interests and welfare of all its members) has to be the man 
for all matters pertaining to public life. This is in absolute 
correlation with the other qualifications of man and woman. 
The man by his aggressiveness, his mentality and will, is best 


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fitted for the struggle of life in the public field,—the woman 
is best qualified for home. 

As long as the family unit exists, that is to say as long 
as husband and wife live, there is no necessity for personal 
representation of the parts of the family unit. The family is 
one entity to be represented by the husband and father. 

If there were any need of having the women represented as 
women, this representation should be limited to female citizens 
who are integral women. Other female individualities cannot 
pretend to representation as women because they lack the pro¬ 
per qualifications of womanhood. They may have rights, in¬ 
dividually and without reference to sex, as laborers, as tenants, 
as merchants or as tradesmen, but they can have no political 
rights because they are not bearing the burden of perpetuating 
the race from which are derived the political rights. 

If you have social life socially represented and organized, 
I would agree to give to anyone properly qualified, either man 
or woman, the right of representation in his or her particular 
class. 

In the study of all matters pertaining to public life, it must 
be kept in mind that the state exists to preserve the individual 
and to provide for the perpetuation of the race, and for these 
purposes only. It must also be remembered that political and 
social rights are coupled with political and social obligations,— 
so that man himself possessess political rights only if he fulfills 
the duties he assumes by taking a wife and raising a family. 
The proper punishment for the man and woman who disas¬ 
sociate themselves from the family unit, is the natural reaction 
of loss of political and social rights belonging to them as parts 
of the unit. 


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CHAPTER III. 

The Woman in Administrative Positions. 

The dilemma that presents itself in regard to the admission 
of women into public administration must be solved in accord¬ 
ance with the natural laws of mankind. The woman cannot 
assume the work and responsibilities of administrative positions 
and at the same time accomplish her duties as wife and mother, 
—she must sacrifice either her womanhood or her ambition. 

Public services must not be stopped or disorganized, addi¬ 
tional burdens put on fellow workers, or greater financial 
charges imposed upon tax payers because the postmistress, the 
mayor or the police-woman is about to give birth to a child. The 
judge cannot interrupt pleadings because her child cries for 
nourishment, although nourishment by the mother is the best 
and healthiest for mother and child. A married woman there¬ 
fore can not be entrusted with public office without hampering 
her efficiency, either' as a mother or as an official. 

If you retort that a single woman is not subject to the same 
duties as a wife and mother and could keep up her work, it is 
to be remembered that the state of bachelorship is only a trans¬ 
itory state which can be made definitive by regulations only 
at the cost of breaking the woman’s natural laws. 

Furthermore, to admit married women to administrative 
or public offices favors the practice of birth-control; to admit 
only single women would create an unfair advantage and place 
a premium on bachelorship of women, with its consequence 
of free love and again birth control,—thus discriminating 
against the sanest part of the nation,-—the married woman and 
mother. 

Public offices belong by right to these who respect their 
social duties,—the married men. Bachelorship with men is 
only temporary, and by taking charge of wife and family, men 


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do not hamper the efficiency in their work, so that bachelors 
should be admitted to public offices, but should indemnify the 
social organization for the damage they cause society. This 
should be done by subjecting bachelor office holders to payment 
of special taxes scaled according to the salaries drawn, and 
appropriated to relief funds for needy widowed mothers and 
orphans. 

Giving public offices to bachelors favors those who make 
their escape from social duties, by keeping out those who ac¬ 
complish them. 

It is wrong that a man at the time socially deficient should 
take a position which might be filled by a man who is a husband 
and father, but it is still more detrimental to society that a 
socially deficient woman may obtain such a position and keep it 
by rendering her deficiency permanent. 

Regulations admitting women to administrative positions 
are immoral in themselves. They counteract the ends and pur¬ 
poses of organized states. They add to the financial burden of 
the productive members of the nation, and lessen the efficiency 
of the administrative staff. 

Recently the women's page of the newpapers have been 
hailing the calling of several women to public offices, but I will 
let the Reader decide the propriety of these appointments by 
just considering this question: Does he think that these ap¬ 
pointments have been made for the sake of justice and for the 
purpose of adding to the efficiency of the administration, or 
have official sinecures been given to women as bribes in 
political schemes? 

To open the administration to women is only to broaden 
the field of misuse of public funds, which is detrimental to 
the nation at large and to a clean administration as well. 


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CHAPTER IV. 

Woman’s Independence. 

Whatever may be the difference of wealth, position or in¬ 
fluence that separates them in the daily intercourse of life, 
women feel instinctivly that they are all equal among them¬ 
selves. They know that all have the same calling in life, are 
affected by the same changes and organized for the same pur¬ 
pose. The maid looks upon her mistress not as a being of 
higher grade, but sees her as a woman, wife and mother, and 
analyzes her qualities and shortcomings as such. Social stations 
may be different, but their natural status is the same for the 
wife of the governor of the state and the street cleaner’s wife. 

Even in the relations between mother and daughter, it 
is very often observed that as soon as woman’s intuition awakes 
in the girl, she chafes under her mother’s command, and no 
matter how little the mother departs from a motherly course to 
act toward her daughter in a woman’s way, the girl revolts 
openly, and claims the right to live her own life. 

Such rebellion, which toward the mother appears only 
spasmodically when the woman’s privileges of the daughter 
are restrained, is permanent in the woman placed under the 
authority of an indifferent person of her own sex. The 
woman wants to do as she pleases, and often changes her 
mind about what she wants, which is consistent with her ver¬ 
satility and makes it painful for her to act contrary to her 
fancy. Discipline to the woman is tyranny. The woman 
does obey willingly only when she feels the ascendency of the 
male. 

While the woman considers it as a personal affront to be 
forced to receive orders from strangers, particularly women, 
the man feels hurt to have a woman belonging to him, be it as 


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fiancee or wife, obey other peopled commands or instructions. 
It is an encroachment upon his prerogatives. 

To work for a living in the employment of other people 
means always a partial dependence or appropriation of the 
employee by the employer. This appropriation is different 
in degrees and ranges from independent intellectual work 
down to physical discomfort. The less the physical obligations, 
—the less the appropriation, and the greater is the price of 
the work. A lawyer, a banker, a railroad manager, and an 
engineer sell their brain power; an artist sells his talent; an 
executive officer rents his brain power and experience; a clerk 
his time; an artisan his handicraft; a laborer his strength; a 
chorus girl her looks; a scrub-woman and a porter their 
physical discomfort. 

These different kinds of appropriation, like all other em¬ 
ployments, give to the employer authority over the employee 
for the use of the latter’s intellectual or physical exertion, 
diminishing in proportion the self-determination or indepen¬ 
dence of the employee, and forcing the employee to work 
for the employer’s personal comfort or profit. 

Such dependence of his wife is unbearable for man because 
he cannot tolerate that the woman he loves, who belongs to 
him, and whom he protects and respects, should, in her ac¬ 
tivities or herself, depend of anyone else. 

What a woman does for a man, outside of her natural 
duties as wife and mother, is a favor in the natural course of 
life, for it is up to the man, by reason of his strength and 
respect, to help the woman and look after her comfort. The 
salariat of woman reverses the rule and makes the woman per¬ 
form services for a stranger and preserve his comfort. 

Take for instance the work of a girl secretary or office 
clerk. Instead of the man being attentive to her, you find her 
seeking to serve the man by opening his letters and answering 
the telephone in order not to disturb him. She dries with the 
blotter his penned signature and renders many similar personal 


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services, which in the case could hardly be called favors, as 
they are simply functions she is paid to perform. 

The character of subordination of the work may not always 
appear as clearly as in the woman-clerk’s duties, but it is by 
all means always present in salaried work, as well in offices, 
department stores, shops, factories or farms. 

When a daughter renders these services to her father, or 
when a wife unasked provides for the welfare of her husband, 
these acts are ennobled by sentiment,—by the love that prompts 
them. They are testimonies of affection. When a woman ren¬ 
ders services to an invalid stranger, these are acts of mercy; 
but when these acts are performed for the benefit of a stranger 
paying for them, they are acts of dependence or servility,— 
partial appropriation of the employee by the employer. 

This reversed relation of man and woman, notwithstanding 
the man’s education and manners, deprives the woman of the 
privileges that her femininity requires, and engender in both 
man and woman habits not in harmony with the innate delicacy 
of woman’s nature. 

The woman to a stranger must be an intangible, indepen¬ 
dent being, whose approach is guarded by her extreme sen¬ 
sitiveness and its reactions on her mentality,—which because 
of her passive constitution, are her best means of defense. 

Frequent and more or less intimate relations with strangers 
having partial rights over her, dull this acuteness of sensibility 
in woman, and especially in young girls. 

The progressive deadening of her sensitiveness causes the 
girl to accept with little or no resentment slightening remarks 
and familiarities which do not generally have her femininity as 
an object, but refer either to her work or personal habits and 
weaknesses. Such remarks and the subservience to which she 
is subjected lower the girl in her own estimation, and unless 
particularly cruel and undeserved, these reprimands diminish 
the respect her fellow workers ought to have for her as a 
woman. 


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The daily intercourse of male and female employees en¬ 
gender a certain kind of familiarity between them. They 
become "pals,”—'but pals with co-ordinate instincts, leaving 
to the man his aggressiveness and to the girl her passiveness 
deprived of its armor of sensitiveness. 

Working girls have greater needs than home girls, and 
are generally provided with only scanty resources. They 
feel, like all other girls, the appeal of male companionship, 
which is gratified by the entertainments their fellow workers 
offer them after office hours, or on week ends. 

This comradeship, not friendship, arising between man and 
girl, is seldom if ever devoid of sexual affinity. Man, aggress¬ 
ive, is in quest of sensual satisfaction and the habitual mas¬ 
culine mentality created by the salaried subservience of girls 
inclines him to regard intimacy as a right, although no love 
exists between them. He insists on caressing and kissing under 
the guise of goodfellowship. And the girl, used to partial ap¬ 
propriation for wages, accepts these equivocal attentions with 
little concern and on the ground that it is her part in the bar¬ 
gain of pleasure. 

Being superficial, with no earnest purpose, and often 
nothing but the vain wish of being seen in the company of a 
pretty and well dressed girl, this comradeship does not lead 
to passion further than crude sexual liberties stopping where 
they would be ennobled by the advent of higher responsibilities. 
It is but a milder form of commercialized sexual satisfaction. 

Love has no share in this comradeship, for the main char¬ 
acteristics of that sentiment are utterly missing. On the part 
of the woman there is want of modesty, exclusiveness and 
constancy,—on the part of the man there is want of respect 
and jealousy without which no love is genuine. 

There is no love, because their aim is not the completion 
of their being, and the perpetuation of the race. There is no 
passion, for passion sacrifices all to its contentment. There is 
just a craving for excitement and a perverted curiosity. 


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When such a spirit of commercialization has invaded the 
girl’s mind, the finalities of marriage are no longer clear to 
her. The wedding becomes a contract, a bargain of herself for 
the best maintenance possible, with the eventuality of either 
adding to the fare by violation of the bargain, or improving her 
condition in new matrimonial positions. 

If the law did not make of marriage a cancellable contract 
and of the marriage license a scrap of paper,—if on the 
other hand the law proclaimed marriage a life-long unity, with 
corresponding rights and duties in the political and social or¬ 
ganizations, men would cease marrying just to satisfy their 
fancies for a girl unwilling to give herself up outside of con¬ 
ventional appearances, and marriage would become what it 
should be,—the legal consecration of mating. 

Of course man would, just the same as he does now, go 
around after girls for his pleasure, but he would marry only 
when finding the woman he loves, the one he wants to be a 
mate in the whole acceptation of the word,—a wife to him and 
a mother through him. He would marry only when he meets 
a maiden who not only attracts him physically but who com¬ 
mands his love and respect by her character and value. 

In every class of society, the higher grade of man goes 
to the higher grade of woman. The lower class man can love 
the lower class woman because the requirements of his ideal 
do not rise above the handicapped woman and because he does 
not perceive some defects or abasing conditions. 

As love is an absolute appropriation of the woman by the 
man, the latter resents all past or present appropriation of his 
woman by another individual. So all women have not equal 
value for man, and this value is proportional to the appro¬ 
priation to which they have been subjected,—the proportion of 
submission they owe to strangers. 

Thus highest in man’s regard is the independent girl,—the 
girl who is free of any stranger’s appropriation, be she an 
heiress or a laborer’s daughter,—in other words, the home girl. 


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Next in man’s appreciation is the girl of intellectual ap¬ 
propriation who conducts her work outside of actual super¬ 
vision by strangers, as a writer, an artist or a doctor. 

Then we have the girl intellectually and bodily restrained, 
as the secretary, the shop or store girl, under whom ranges 
the girl of physical efficiency such as the chorus girl or the 
chamber-maid; and finally only men of the lowest ideals can 
admire women whose efficiency resides in their physical dis¬ 
comfort, such as conductorettes and scrub-women. 

A marriage proposal is the greatest testimony of apprecia¬ 
tion of value a man can give a woman, for in any other social 
relations it is only a partial appropriation that is desired, either 
intellectual, mental or physical, while marriage begs for the 
total appropriation with its consequences of rights and duties. 
A man when asking a girl to marry him pays to her a tribute in 
her entity. 

We find in the daily reports of marriages a clear illustration 
of the influence of the woman’s position upon man. A man 
of character may marry his secretary, but you never read the 
announcement of such a man marrying his sister’s chamber¬ 
maid or a conductorette. Among the office workers, it will 
be easy to observe that young men seldom marry girls working 
in the same office or store, but marry girls working in other 
places. The reason for this is that their consideration and 
respect is better preserved because the partial appropriation 
of the girl is less apparent to them. 

A man marrying an actress wants her to leave the stage, 
while an actor marrying a player will not interfere with her 
career; a butler and a cook hire themselves together when mar¬ 
ried. These variations in the sentiments of the husband con¬ 
cerning the partial appropriation of his wife by strangers, is in 
direct relation to the refinement of nature of the people who 
marry. The sentiment of exclusive and absolute appropriation 
of woman by man is instinctive, but has in some cases been 
blunted by defective social habits. 


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All partial appropriation of womanhood is repellent to 
woman’s nature, and imperils man’s respect for her, because it 
infringes the independence she needs for the full and fair 
play of her woman’s faculties and ends. It substitutes arbitrary 
rules to natural reactions. 

Discipline, or arbitrary rules, leave to the man, aggressive 
by nature, his integrity of character and even ennoble it in 
some circumstances, because his obedience is a voluntary act, 
but the same submission is degrading and enslaving to woman, 
because she has not the strength of will to resist them, being 
passive by nature. Discipline deprives the woman of her means 
of action,—sentiment and charms have no recognition in busi¬ 
ness regulations. 

The Eastern girl, in the harem, bent under the will of the 
eunuch,—the Western girl in the office under the head clerk’s 
management,—the working girl under the foreman’s super¬ 
vision,—the inmate in the reformatory,—the student-girl in 
the class-room,—are but different expressions of the same dis¬ 
cipline applied to womanhood. They are women used for 
other purposes than their calling and the motive of their 
obedience is either blunt compulsion or erratic social conditions 
and prejudices. 

This exposition should not be construed as intimating that 
all working girls are doomed to perpetual slavery and abase¬ 
ment, for we ourselves know many who either by favorable dis¬ 
position of temperament or by lucky surroundings of which the 
home is the main feature, escape the debasing influence of em¬ 
ployment, or at least preserve in its main features the nobility 
of woman’s character. 

The product of down-town life is not vicious in itself, not 
even always in habits, but it is a lowered standard of humanity, 
that values itself, and is valued in the mind of business men 
and women, in dollars and cents. 

Instead of being considered as the mate of man, the down¬ 
town girl is regarded either as a machine, a tool or a toy. 


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Salariat of women is a commercialization of the girl which 
either disregards her femininity or exploits her womanhood. 
It is a form of slavery. 

The independent girl is the maiden at home,—the indepen¬ 
dent woman is the wife. Both are enabled to bloom into the 
fulness of their being by the free expansion of ALL their 
faculties in the bosom of the family unit. They possess inde¬ 
pendence as nature decreed it for them, and they enjoy the 
unquestionable respect of man for woman. 


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CHAPTER V. 

The Woman’s Work and Its Connection with Domestic 
and Political Economy. 

It has been outlined in previous chapters that: 

1. The normal station of woman in society is married life, 
this condition, and only this condition, enabling her to attain 
her full development. 

2. The married woman, by reason of her duties as wife 
and mother, cannot be self-supporting. 

3. The husband has to provide for the family needs. 

The family being the root of the nation, social conditions 
must be directed so as to facilitate or at least not to hamper 
the proper maintenance of the family unit,—that is to say, not 
hinder the husband in the performance of his duties. This 
means in the present case that the normal earnings of a man’s 
normal work must enable him to support properly his wife and 
children in their relative rank in society. 

The woman,—wife or maiden,—needing the home as a 
place of safety and comfort, she has to find in the home the 
exercise of her activities. 

Besides the duties of the woman as wife and mother,— 
which are the same for the wife of the millionaire and the 
wife of the laborer,—there is the part the woman has to take 
in house-keeping, and this part is proportionate to the rank of 
the family unit in the social scale. 

No matter how democratic a government may be, the nation 
comprises classes of people. These are social classes and cor¬ 
respond in varying degrees to the mental and physical refine¬ 
ment acquired through better surroundings and gradual lessen¬ 
ing of menial activities. 

People in this respect are generally divided into upper, 
middle and lower classes. Such division does not reflect upon 


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the moral character of the people concerned, for individuals 
of all classes, from generation to generation, keep their heredi¬ 
tary traits of temperament and moral value, but differentiate 
themselves by the way they act and exteriorate their feelings. 

As a rule, social classes correspond to the degrees of social 
independence of the people, although circumstantial changes 
may mix a man of the lower class with the higher, or bring 
down a higher bred man to lower conditions. But in either 
case it is a disclassment, which disappears when the individual 
has adapted himself to his new condition and has assumed the 
manners of his new associates. 

Class influence is deeply felt in mating. A man may be 
physically attracted by a woman of any class, but the mental 
appeal which compels him to want a certain girl as wife comes 
only if she is of his own class, or if he recognizes in her 
mentality and inclinations similar to his own. Many a butler 
would refuse to marry the beautiful young heiress on whose 
table he waits and would prefer the chamber-maid or the 
cook,—just as the man of refinement would not care to have a 
studio model for wife because of mental divergence, nor would 
he care to have the kitchen maid, either as wife or mistress, 
because of her bruised and soiled fingers. 

It naturally and happily happens generally that people 
marry in their own class, and that the woman’s personal re¬ 
finement corresponds to the man’s social station. 

Having the home as her realm, it behooves the woman 
to keep it according to the family’s relative place in society 
by personal supervision or personal work as is necessary in 
the great majority of cases. 

In what proportion she is called upon to contribute to the 
house work is determined by her husband’s earnings or income, 
the spending of which is entrusted to her for the common wel¬ 
fare. 

This work may range from management or simply orders 
given to a staff of well trained servants, to the actual keeping 


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in good order of all implements and facilities required for the 
use of all members of the household. 

The manner in which the woman carries out her household 
duties, be they orders or actual work, bears the mark of her 
personal refinement. 

The refinement of the poorest woman is found in the 
cleanliness of herself and children and in the tidiness of her 
house and clothes. Higher refinement is shown in the more 
appetizing way of preparing and presenting food. With the 
middle class, better quality in house implements and in clothing 
material is obtained. Details of elegance begin to appear in 
the home, the clothes and the finery of personal attire. With 
the upper class quality and good taste must be found in all 
things,—be they expensive or of moderate price. 

The woman's refinement is the main factor in the ascending 
process of the classes. Cleanliness, tidiness, comfort, elegance 
in the home and clothing,—in other words home environment 
and personal appearance,—are the results of the woman’s care 
and have a decidingly elevating effect upon the mind and man¬ 
ners of the people, especially upon the character of children. 
The woman of refinement teaches the latter how to use, without 
spoiling them, the more elegant and better things, and cultivates 
their esthetic sense. 

According to the family’s income, the household furniture 
is more or less commodious, and outside help is more or less 
called upon, but invariably there remains a certain amount of 
work to be done by the wife to keep the household in an attrac¬ 
tive style. Furthermore, it is the actual work of the woman 
that enables the family to afford some luxury which gives 
satisfaction in the use of things. For instance, boiled potatoes 
are coarse and common food, but if they are mashed with 
milk and butter and browned in the oven they become a 
delicious dish, and are a luxury for the poor. A sweatshop 
fabricated shirt, soon ripped and out of shape, is a plain 
utility, but a hand made shirt of fine linen or silk trimmed 


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with a bit of lace is a luxury. So also blouses and handker¬ 
chiefs can be embroidered and made luxuries for the middle 
class. 

It is the possession of such luxuries that gives enjoyment 
to everyday life, and they remain luxuries only so long as they 
exceed one’s capacity to obtain them without privation or 
effort. Luxury calls for a corresponding amount of sacrifice, 
be it in small objects such as a dress, a fur, a ring, or in ex¬ 
pensive things like a 60 HP automobile, a sea-going yacht. If 
these can be acquired without effort out of the family income, 
r they cease to be luxuries and, as a matter of fact, are simply 
utilities. 

Luxuries are an external sign of eagerness for better wel¬ 
fare, and really improve the condition of the people when 
acquired in a way not detrimental to the household necessities 
or the future income. 

Whatever may be the financial standing of the family, 
it is the woman’s household management and her work that 
make the enjoyment of luxuries possible. It is the woman’s 
wise domestic economy and industry that preserve the family 
budget. 

The refinement of the woman affects her ability to perform 
certain tasks, because the latter would strain beyond limits her 
more delicate constitution, diminish her dexterity in higher 
handicraft or spoil her favorable appearance. 

The more refined a woman is the less she is able to do gross 
work. Light house-keeping is gross work for a woman of the 
upper class, just as house cleaning is gross work for a woman 
of the middle class, although a woman of the lower class con¬ 
siders it ordinary work. 

Generally woman’s work becomes easier as you ascend the 
social ladder, for the reason that furniture and clothes are 
better finished and made of better material. The poor’s white 
board table demands a scouring, the oak-board table a washing, 
but the polished mahogany needs no other care than dusting 


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with a soft cloth. Thus house-work, which would be hard and 
trying to a middle class woman if she were put in the lower 
class surroundings, is automatically adapted to the woman's 
strength and ability. 

The economic results of the woman's work have to be 
considered from different viewpoints as domestic economy for 
the home woman, and political economy for the outside worker. 

When the wife and daughter are working outside of the 
home, they have no time left to prepare a decent meal nor to 
repair and put to new use clothes that have been worn, causing 
waste of foodstuff and clothing materials. The working wife 
has to eat “left-overs” or go to the restaurant, she is compelled 
to wear shabby clothes, or to buy new ones. By making and 
repairing the simpler articles of her own wearing apparel and 
that of her children, the home-wife is able to have better mate¬ 
rials, better make, and fineries which will last longer than by 
buying ready-made sweatshop garments. The sums saved by 
such activities permit either a better living standard for the 
family or the saving of a certain part of the husband’s earn¬ 
ings. 

By a logical sequence, the woman who works outside the 
home, whether married or unmarried, has for the maintenance 
of herself, and eventually that of her family, to rely for food 
upon the delicatessen shop and for wearing apparel upon the 
“98 cent ready to wear” fineries, which because of current 
business methods are fabricated hastily of poor, but showy 
material and do not outlast two or three rough-handlings by 
the launderer. 

Food, unsavory and lacking in nourishment, with flashy 
clothes, absorb the greatest part, if not all, of what the average 
girl is able to earn. Very few girls, and only those living at 
home with their parents are, in favorable circumstances, able 
to save a few dollars. 

As the number of girls and women doing work outside the 
home increases, the demand of the factories and sweatshops 


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for cheap labor grows in order to supply the new needs created 
by the abandonment of industry in the home. 

The schools in the United States send out every year into 
the business world hundreds of thousands of young men and 
girls, with more or less clerical, literary or business training, 
seeking positions ranging from book-keeper or stenographer to 
junior lawyer and engineer, who after a few years experience, 
command salaries averaging from 20 to 40 dollars a week. 
These salaries enable the worker to provide for his own needs 
in a fairly decent way, according to his social position, but 
when the time comes to create a family, the difficulty is to make 
two live on the salary of one, without sensibly lowering their 
standard of living. 

The question presents itself as follows: Will both of them 
keep up their work, be married in name only without the sacred 
advantages of true home-making, and adventure the happiness 
of their lives on the stormy seas of equivocal situations, thus 
risking estrangement in order to keep up appearances ? Or will 
the wife stay at home, and perform home duties for which she 
has not been properly trained, consequently living in discom¬ 
fort and petty quarrels, and raising a family in mediocrity and 
want? 

This dilemma arises, on the one hand, from the cost of living 
connected with the greater amount of money in circulation, 
brought about by the increased number of salaried people; and, 
on the other hand, from the low scale of wages paid because 
of the greater number of workers available. 

When there are more workers used than actual production 
needs, the extra wage earners become a burden to the economic 
condition of the country, causing a uselessly increased cost of 
production which has its counter-balance in a still greater 
increase in prices to the consumer. 

To what an extent this has become a public danger can be 
realized when we consider the number of wage earners in this 
country. The “Vocational Summary,” published by the Fed- 


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eral Board for Vocational Education, says in its issue of 
October, 1920: “The 1910 census reported 8,075,772 women 
wage earners in the United States; to-day 12,000,000 is a con¬ 
servative estimate of employed women. Probably the 1920 cen¬ 
sus will show that fully one-third of all persons in the country 
who are gainfully employed are women.” 

As in normal conditions a man earns sufficiently to provide 
for the needs of his family, the above figures mean that the 
normal cost of living is increased one-third by the extensive 
employment of women in salaried positions. 

The excess of wage-earners over the number of workers 
needed for actual production is paid by raising the price of the 
material utilities produced. 

In a community of 100 million men, women and children, 
the adult population is about 60 million, and the adult male 
population 35 million. The productive capacity of these 35 
million men is amply sufficient to furnish all the material 
and intellectual needs of the whole population. 

But if the country’s economic system has to pay wages to 
12 million more workers for an equal volume of utilities the 
unavoidable consequence is that the price of the actual product 
will be raised proportionately, or about one-third. 

The unmarried individual does not suffer and often benefits 
by the rise in the cost of living, because he receives a corres¬ 
ponding increase in wages; but the family bread winner looses, 
because, while his wages have been raised as a single worker, 
the increase in the cost of necessities to him is multiplied by as 
many times as he has people dependent upon him. 

Therefore, to provide for the needs of the family, a greater 
number of people have to do outside work, thus making still 
more serious the unsound economic situation. 

The actual amount of production (not the fictitious price of 
it,) represents the available resources of the country. All ex¬ 
penditures that are not required for actual production, are over¬ 
head expenses, directly increasing the cost of production. In 


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this category are expenditures of the Administration, banking 
profits, benefits from speculation, salaries to unnecessary wor¬ 
kers and other unproductive business expenses. 

These overhead expenses, which affect little the individual 
worker, are the burden of the family head,—thus leading to 
more numerous childless marriages and imperiling the rearing 
of new healthy generations. 

The little girl who receives 6 dollars a week to help the 
saleslady in the fashion shop, the 7,000 dollar woman-judge and 
the well paid female “sinecurist,” contribute proportion¬ 
ately in disturbing the economic equilibrium of the country, 
either by unnecessary intervention in the production and dis¬ 
tribution of goods, or by benefitting, as individuals, of legitimate 
business profits or salaried positions, which could maintain a 
whole family. 

By increasing unnecessarily the cost of production of a 
given amount of needed goods, or diverting to selfish individ¬ 
uals legitimate benefits and salaries which should go to men 
having family responsibilities, the woman in business or ad¬ 
ministration increases the burden of married men and real 
wives and mothers. She ruins the economic equilibrium of the 
country and is inimical to the social order and to national 
progress. 

The industry of the home-woman, in such manner as is ap¬ 
propriate to her class, is the only solution of this problem. 
Firstly, it enables the woman to provide properly for the 
family's needs within the earnings of her husband,—secondly, 
it takes or keeps out of salaried positions a great number of 
women, thus improving the economic condition of the wage- 
earners. 

Reduce the number of wage-earners and you reduce, cor¬ 
respondingly, the money inflation. The excess of available 
labor being lessened, you obtain a proportionate increase in 
wages. 


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Confining the woman to her home duties would diminish 
to a great extent the volume of the business of the nation: It 
would close tens of thousands of fashion shops and women's 
clothing stores, thousands of restaurants, lunch and tea rooms, 
and delicatessen stores, of which the keepers, owners, salesmen 
and clerks would have to do some work really productive, thus 
contributing to the national prosperity. 

Most of these exploiting business concerns sell to the 
working girls wearing apparel at two or three times its value, 
for the supposed advantage of allowing instalment payments 
for goods which, nevertheless, they deliver only when the last 
payment is made. 

This method enriches a few thousand men, but enslaves 
millions of girls in the United States. The money circulating 
in these concerns does not add to the national wealth, because 
it does not correspond to any actual asset. The closing of 
business houses that just do “business” and do not produce is 
no loss to the country. On the contrary, it helps to establish 
the national economic situation on a sane and conservative 
foundation. 

Furthermore, as the salaried woman goes on working in 
offices, shops and factories, her efficiency as a home-woman 
diminishes. Even the girl who passes from school to business 
or to college has never had her aptitude for woman's work 
awakened or exerted, and is delivered to squandering and 
wastefulness in the home-management when she marries, defic¬ 
iencies which result in financial difficulties in the maintenance 
of the home and in family misunderstandings. 

At a recent international meeting of women-doctors in New 
York City, during the loose discussions which, according to 
the New York Tribune, bewildered the women from abroad, 
some interesting facts were presented, although wrongly com¬ 
mented upon for feministic purposes. We note, that Dr. Char¬ 
lotte Perkins Gilman, advocating some devices to relieve 


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women from home work to enable them to work outside, based 
a demand for trained assistants to care for babies and young 
children on the ignorance of the mothers. Dr. Hale, in one of 
her speeches, said: “Women should have more proper physical 
development than men. They need it more. Girls should be 
trained for maternity as a runner is trained for a race.” 

In other words, these women-doctors recognize that know¬ 
ledge and training is necessary to the woman,—that a marriage 
license is not enough to make a wife and mother out of a sten¬ 
ographer,—that woman needs a special education in her differ¬ 
ent stages of development and in all her activities. 

The destiny of the girl is not to be a money earning 
machine. If you wish to know what men want her to be, ask 
the fathers and they will tell you that they want their daughters 
to be worthy wives and mothers. Ask the young men and they 
will tell you that they have a right to young, beautiful, healthy 
and intelligent girls for wives. Manufacturers may need shop 
girls, department stores sales-girls, and business men steno¬ 
graphers, but a man needs for a wife, a maiden, who will be 
able to bear him strong children and help him through life in 
good or bad fortune. 

Such a woman he needs, and he has right to her because she 
is the only means by which he himself can reach the full 
development of his personality and accomplish his destiny in 
life. It is his right to have such a wife, because it is the natural 
course of nature and a necessity in his pursuit of happiness, 
against which no social distortion or business interest can pre¬ 
vail. 

Woman’s work outside of home hampers the man in the 
accomplishment of his duties. It degrades the woman and 
makes her inefficient for her calling in life. Economically, it 
deprives the family unit of fair earnings and raises unneces¬ 
sarily the cost of living, thus adding to the burden of wives and 
mothers. 


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Woman’s work outside of home builds the prosperity of 
a few business men upon the enslaved and broken lives of 
millions of girls and women. It is socially unsound,—and a 
crime in a country possessing sufficient resources to give every 
man ample wages for keeping his wife and daughters in such 
conditions as to give them, unrestricted, the satisfaction of 
living a woman’s life. 


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PART VI. 

WOMANHOOD AND CIVILIZATION. 

CHAPTER I. 

The Higher Woman. 

In the foregoing chapters we have seen what the woman is 
by decree of nature and the place which is her’s in society. We 
have to consider now what the woman has to be, and can be, in 
our present state of civilization. 

The higher woman cannot be the woman who enjoys only 
partial womanhood, neither can it be the woman who has not 
benefitted by the general progress of humanity. The two ele¬ 
ments of natural functions and human progress have to be com¬ 
bined in order to evolve the higher woman. 

Human progress or civilization is like ornaments and labor- 
saving devices which an architect uses in the building of a 
house. The ornaments are for the purpose of pleasing the 
aesthetic sense of the dweller and the passer-by, the labor- 
saving devices intend to add to the comfort of the occupants. 

Exaggerating ornaments and conveniences is a greater bar¬ 
barity than ignoring them. If, in order to have the house re¬ 
semble a gothic cathedral the architect plans rooms without 
light, if, in order to give every one of the dwellers a private 
bath room, he cramps all of them into one bed-room; if he 
manages to furnish the kitchen with complicated appliances 
which take more of the cook’s time to keep in order and operate 
than would old fashioned implements, then, this architect, no 
matter how pure his gothic conception may be, no matter how 


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convenient it is for everyone to have his own bath-room, no 
matter how cleverly constructed are the kitchen utensils,—this 
architect, it will be conceded, has utterly failed in his main 
purpose in building the house, because he subordinated the 
essential to the accessory, the utility to the pleasure. He ex¬ 
tended a part of the whole beyond its proper limits, and made 
the care of the tools waste the time needed for production. 

The house has in the first place to be a place to live in, just 
as the woman has firstly to be a woman. Her womanhood 
must not be adapted to the conditions of civilization, but the 
improvements of civilization must be adapted to her woman¬ 
hood. Her nature must prevail over her environment; her en¬ 
tity is the purpose of the builder; her femininity is the founda¬ 
tion on which civilization can build the higher woman. 

The improvements of civilization affect the woman in every 
constitutive part of her organism and influence all her activities. 

Physically, better protection from inclement climates, lesser 
exertion of her muscular strength and easier ways of living, 
make her more delicate in build and more refined in features. 

The improvements of civilization are intended to diminish 
or correct imperfections by proper treatment,—not to hide de¬ 
fects with artificial contrivances such as powdering a sallow 
complexion, dyeing the hair or wearing wigs. These are orna¬ 
mental barbarities closely related to the tattooing and the ring 
in the nose of the savages. 

Improvements of civilization are, for instance, hygiene and 
dietetics, the purposes of which are to preserve the body in a 
healthy and fit condition by facilitating the proper functions of 
every organ. In the matter of clothes, the improvements of 
civilization consist in adapting to the personality of each woman 
the color and material of her garments, as well as their style. 

The mental characteristics of mankind have not changed 
since the actions of men have been recorded in history or 
legend. 


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So far as the process of feeling is concerned, men of this 
time love, hate and lie for the same motives as those who lived 
several thousand years ago: their feelings are the same; and so 
also are those of contemporary men of widely different degrees 
of civilizations. But that which has changed under the influence 
of civilization is the manner of expressing these feelings by 
words and actions. 

For instance, cruelty or pleasure taken in the suffering 
of a fellow being, which people consider generally as an instinct 
of the primitive man, is a perversion of human nature resulting 
from hate, anger or fear grown into habits. 

The same causes which in past ages brought about habitual 
hate, anger or fear, with their consequence of cruelty, are still 
in our days determinative in originating cruelty, but according 
to the trend of contemporaneous civilization cruelty takes dif¬ 
ferent forms and expressions. 

In remote days, just as in some modern but barbarous civil¬ 
izations, hate and anger led to fights, injuries and deaths. In 
earlier days vindictiveness appeared in the forms of execution 
and torture. Nowadays hate and anger still aim at destruction, 
but because of the greater delicacy of the human physical con¬ 
stitution, they tend more to hurt the enemy mentally than 
bodily. Gentlemen do not fight any more except with words, 
and often a word or even a single glance inflicts greater injury 
than a physical blow. 

Public condemnation in our time uses less capital penalty 
and there is a strong tendency for its suppression. We judge 
segregation from human society and public condemnation as 
sufficient chastisements for the condemned man. And also the 
hated man of today suffers as much mentally from his enemy's 
verbal action, and the condemned one from his confinement, as 
the man of earlier times from corporal punishment. 

These different expressions of hate and anger result from 
our softening ambient civilization, or Christianism, just as 
the cruel entertainments of the Coliseum and the barbarous 


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treatment of the slaves resulted from the worship of the Roman 
people for war-like brute force,—just as the politeness and 
licentiousness of the ancient Greeks resulted from their worship 
for external form. 

Woman has always felt more intensely than man these 
influences of civilization, because of her natural delicacy of 
constitution, which caused her to be worse than the men in 
Rome, and often better than man in Christendom. You have to 
go deep into the lower classes to find women who fight, scratch 
and pull one another’s hair, and you go almost as far down the 
scale to find those who make their feelings known through 
insulting words and quarreling. Gradually as you ascend the 
ladder of refinement you will come upon the woman who ex¬ 
presses her antipathy in veiled words, to find finally the higher 
civilized woman who makes her attack under the guise of a 
compliment. 

Grief, in olden days, was expressed by tearing one’s gar¬ 
ments, pulling the hair and covering one’s head with ashes. 
More refined sensitiveness displays its sorrow in less spectac¬ 
ular ways, less affecting the senses and more directed to the 
mind. 

In a smiliar way kind feelings, and also joy and satisfaction, 
are expressed with less outward manifestations. Favors are 
granted and services rendered with less ostentation. Help is 
tendered with the greatest discretion in the higher civilizations. 

The ancient Belgians were accustomed when kinsmen or 
friendly tribes visited them to start festivities, ending only 
when the provisions of the host had been exhausted and his 
wealth spent, and this was the moment for host and guests to 
go and visit some other relatives or friends. Nowadays, al¬ 
though there remains a room called the Guest Room, which 
generally is the best in the house, the host limits his welcome to 
his resources and the guest takes care not to inconvenience the 
people he visits. 

The Scriptures tell us that Solomon danced before the Arch, 


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but under the restraining influence of civilization, we did not 
see President Wilson deporting himself in the same fashion 
when bringing back from Europe the League of Nations 
Covenant. 

The farmer’s wife will assume a patronizing air of com¬ 
miseration when she gives a cripple a piece of bread, saying 
that she has buttered it, while the woman of refinement will be 
quite chummy when visiting poor and sick people. 

Civilization does not change the nature of man or woman, 
but smoothes out the external expression of their natural im¬ 
pulses. 

Civilization affects also the intellect of man,—not that the 
process of thinking ever was different,—reflection, analysis and 
synthesis having always been the fundamental agencies in the 
search for truth for the first man as well as for Aristotle and 
the modern thinker. 

The school child solving a problem of arithmetic uses the 
same intellectual methods as Newton did in finding the law of 
gravitation and Leverrier in discovering an unknown planet by 
calculation. With training, a high-school girl works out geo¬ 
metrical problems which were the secret science of the Egyptian 
priests of the Pharoahs’ times. 

These facts do not indicate that intelligence is a more or 
less recent acquisition of man, but it shows that the improve¬ 
ments of civilization have given to the intellectual powers of the 
modern individual more exercise and, consequently, man has 
constructed path-ways of habits facilitating reflection. 

Thus civilization, although causing no change in the nature 
of intelligence and its faculties, makes easy the path of intellec¬ 
tual work, and because of the facility of its use, higher civilized 
people apply it more frequently and more freely than the back¬ 
ward man, and are less prone than the latter to ground their 
beliefs upon the unverified statement of some authority. The 
higher man wants to understand by himself,—he does not take 
as granted Mr. So-and-so’s opinion on the subject. The higher 


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degree of intellectuality is to conceive clear and accurate ideas 
of facts,—co-ordinate and compare them properly,—and draw 
from this comparison the right conclusion. 

The improvement of her faculties realize the higher woman. 
But the higher woman is not the woman who has improved to a 
high degree only one of her faculties, as the show-girl her 
appearance, the athletic girl her muscular strength, the phil- 
ospher her intellectual alertness. Such women have progressed 
but partially. But the woman of whom all the faculties, in 
every station of her development, have benefited by the im¬ 
provements of civilization, and who has applied these improve¬ 
ments to her activities, is the higher woman. 

The show-girl is like a house built for the pleasure of the 
passer-by; the athletic girl is a circus number; the philosopher 
a scientist;—but none of these is a complete woman unless all 
her other potentialities have been developed to a normal realiz¬ 
ation. 

It is no achievement for a doctor to be a good fiddler if he 
is ignorant of diagnosis. It is of little benefit to an architect 
to be well versed in entomology, if he is a poor draftsman. It 
is no qualification for an army officer to be a good dancer if 
he has no understanding of tactics. All these men need first to 
be fit for their walks in life, and then they may fiddle, collect 
butterflies, and dance in their spare time. So the woman also 
must first be a woman; she must be fit for a woman’s life, 
using her spare time only in the pursuit of foreign achieve¬ 
ments. 

The position a woman may hold in the fields of science, 
finance or adminstration is in no way connected with her 
womanhood, and in most instances she obtains her success in 
such endeavors only by ignoring her womanhood. 

It has been often remarked in the survey of events that 
“history repeats itself,” and the same may be said of humanity 
and civilization. The newborn child is raw material of man¬ 
kind,—in body, gracefully clumsy, stronger than skilful,—and 


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it manifests its sensations and sentiments in uncontrolled ways. 
It is a retrogression to the primitive man, with frailer con¬ 
stitution and finer features, and also with hereditary ailments 
according to the health of the parents. 

Just as nations acquire civilization by degrees varying with 
their stage of development, so also does the refinement of 
civilization materialize itself progressively in the girl in pro¬ 
portion to her advance toward the completion of her being. 

It has been demonstrated before that maidenhood is a state 
of preparation that is beneficial to the girl only so long as she 
is not completely formed; and we may add that this is true not 
only for her bodily organs but of her mentality and her in¬ 
tellectuality as well. 

Remembering that civilization does not change the nature of 
the human being, but refines it, and that the preservation in the 
girl of her woman's faculties is the first requirement of her 
natural laws, we are led to the conclusion that the woman's 
faculties, as they normally appear, must be trained in the ways 
of refinement. 

Hygienic cares, while an infant, develop in the girl a greater 
sensibility to cleanliness,—proper diet, normal rest and clothes 
appropriate to the season preserve her health,—so that when she 
grows up to the age when she begins to attend to her own per¬ 
sonal needs she has acquired habits improving her appearance 
naturally and guarding her health. Then she does not feel the 
need of using such barbarities as rouge, powder and false hair. 
Fair complexion and round checks result from a healthy con¬ 
dition, and fine and wavy hair from constant attention. 

According to her health and temperament, a little girl spends 
her energy in more or less violent activities, but her early train¬ 
ing in cleanliness will prevent her from acting in ways to soil 
herself, stain her clothes or ruin her dolls. From this peculiar 
sensitiveness it comes that refined women are able to wear and 
use dainty clothes with ease and elegance until worn out, while 
a factory girl or a farmer's daughter feels clumsy in her fashion- 


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able raiments which soon assume a miserable and shabby ap¬ 
pearance. 

The infant-girl's mentality, also a retrogression to the 
primitive type, is under the influence of temperament and con¬ 
ditions of health. It must be civilized in order that the girl may 
grow up into higher womanhood, for, as was said before, civil¬ 
ization which does not change mentality itself or the process of 
mental faculties, modifies the outward expression of senti¬ 
ments,—the latter being instinctive and often unconscious re¬ 
actions. 

Sentimental reactions are always accompanied by more or 
less strong and extended movements of organs and blood, 
which by their frequence and strength create physiological 
paths of habit which are all beneficial when the sentiments are 
good, all detrimental when they are bad. 

The only factor that can bring about some changes in the 
manifestation of intimate feelings is suggestion, either by ex¬ 
ample, word or experience. The little bundle of instinctive re¬ 
actions that the very young girl is, must, as her faculties de¬ 
velop, pass through different periods of civilization in order to 
reach ultimately the perfection of the higher woman. 

Sensations are at the base of the child's mentality, just as 
they are predominant in the primitive periods of civilization. 
Therefore, in earlier days the practice of corporal punishment 
for offenses, and nowadays intimation of approval or con¬ 
demnation of the child's actions by various expressions of the 
face and sounds of the voice. 

Sensations can be cultivated in the child, and the free play 
of agreeable sensations and removal of unpleasant things are 
the first initiation of the child to a higher standard of mankind, 
as they open the physiological paths of habit toward a pleasant 
temper. 

Sentiments come next, as sympathy and antipathy, confi¬ 
dence and distrust, modesty and aggressiveness, joy and sor¬ 
row,—and the tendency toward them can be strengthened or 


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lessened by giving motives or removing causes for their ex¬ 
ercise, so that sympathy, confidence, modesty and joy exterior¬ 
ize more freely, while the other sentiments, although deeply 
felt, lack the pathways of habit that would make their ex¬ 
pression offensive. 

The suggestion of example is all-powerful with the child 
in connection with such feelings, for the child will imitate and 
often exaggerate the movements of the face and gesture of 
people it meets. Proper companionship is thus essential to the 
higher woman in the bud. This age of the child corresponds 
to the age of customs in the progress of the nations toward 
civilization. 

Following the age of habit comes that of faith. The teach¬ 
ing by authority should not lead the girl to beliefs antagonistic 
to her nature, such as feminist theories, of which experience 
of life will show the fallacy, and very often when it is too 
late to remedy their actually disastrous effects. For these 
theories do not give the girl a different mind, they only 
sophisticate the girl, making her ascent to puberty a painful 
struggle, ending either in incapacity for loving at the time 
it is most beneficial, or in complete reaction toward vicious 
license. 

After the age of faith, in children and nations, comes the 
philosophical age, which results in chaos and unrest if child or 
nation has been misled during previous periods of life. When 
the young girl starts to think for herself, her philosophical age 
has begun. 

A survey of the women’s activties and behavior shows that 
the greatest need of the modern girl is intellectual refinement. 
The imperfect knowledge of a few rudiments of sciences and 
languages, and a narrow minded special training in money¬ 
making studies such as law, medicine or teaching, make her an 
easy victim of erroneous theories and sophisms, because these 
studies, instead of exercising judgment, are dogmatic imposi¬ 
tions upon memory, with the purpose of enabling the student to 


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perform a specific task. As a factory girl has her hands trained 
to feed a machine-tool,—as a stenographer is habituated to take 
dictations, so school-girls are trained to solve problems of 
mathematics, to translate a Latin or Spanish text,—so the law 
student learns the procedure for divorce cases, so the medical 
student memorizes symptoms of diseases and the corresponding 
medicine and treatment to be given. 

With knowledge of the intricacies of law and even with 
real discernment in tonfusing symptoms, most of the women 
lawyers and doctors are ignorant of their own selves and of 
their function in society. They are unable with all their tech¬ 
nical training to understand and co-ordinate the significance of 
the various manifestations of their entity. 

The maiden who is to become the higher woman needs 
intellectual refinement, which means that her intellect must be 
exercised to understand clearly and solve all problems arising 
in her natural life as maiden, wife and mother. A girl-doctor, 
lawyer or stenographer is like a doctor who fiddles, an architect 
who collects insects, an officer who dances, while the patient 
gets worse, while the contractor cheats, while the orderlies 
wait for orders,—they are girls missing their mission on earth. 

The higher woman is the embodiment of the civilization 
of a nation. Such a woman concentrates the physical, mental 
and intellectual refinement which it is her mission to preserve 
and transmit from generation to generation. 

She is the maiden whose modesty has preserved her from 
perverse curiosity, whose appearance has acquired all the love¬ 
liness of which the woman’s body is susceptible, whose sen¬ 
sitiveness reacts freely, whose sentiments are expressed in a 
lady-like way. She is the maiden who awaits the coming of the 
selected mate, with all the treasures of potential love and faith; 
she is the maiden who heeds the calling of her nature. 

She is the wife whose modesty has evolved in self-respect, 
—she is the wife who receives with joy and satisfaction the 
attentions of her husband,—who identifies herself with the 


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family unit,—who understands her husband and eventually 
corrects his imperfections. She is the wife who relinquishes 
selfishness and the pettiness of spite and envy. She is the wife 
who influences her husband by woman’s ways,—faith, love and 
respect. She is the woman who brings into play all the refine¬ 
ment of civilization to make her womanly career,—the only 
possible career for a woman—a success. 

She is the prospective mother who takes proper care to bear 
healthy and strong children. She is the mother who performs 
fastidiously the duties of her state,—who prides herself in 
healthy and beautiful children,—who breeds in her girls un¬ 
sophisticated modesty and in her boys responsible manhood. 
She is the mother who inures her children to habits of refine¬ 
ment. 

These are the HIGHER WOMEN,—the woman who as¬ 
sumes other functions fails in her mission and is but a per¬ 
verted product of abnormal environments. 


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CHAPTER II. 

The Education of the Girl. 

It is the imprescriptible right of each and every man to 
obtain as his bride, a maiden,—beautiful and healthy, intelli¬ 
gent and modest,—one who will be a real wife to him, because 
such a wife is the fundamental element in the attainment of his 
happiness. That right supersedes any need that private in¬ 
terests or public organizations may have for human labor. The 
institutions of the country owe him, as a duty, facilitation of 
the exercise of this right by all means at their disposal. 

The foremost institution to be considered in connection with 
this right of man is the public school for girls. 

When public officials assumed the right to take away from 
the mothers the education of their daughters, they builded big 
monumental schools, published innumerable syllabi on Man¬ 
ners and Conduct in Life, on Ethics, English, Geography, Pen¬ 
manship, Physiography, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Biology, 
Botany, Zoology, Chemistry and Physics. They organized 
high-school clubs for everything: Alumnae Associations, Arista 
Leagues, Vigilantes, Debating Clubs, even a Senatus Populus- 
que Romanus, a Hellenic Club, a Science Club, a Mathematics 
Club, a School Art League, a Poster Club, a Sketch Club, a 
Modern History Club, a Scribes Club, a Cercle Francais, an 
Italian Society, a Deutsche Verein, a Social Welfare Club, an 
Orchestra Glee Club, a High School Republic and other 
groups which were designed to make of these young girls per¬ 
fect little fools in school time and preposterous club women in 
later years. 

They drew elaborate and intricate rules for every move in 
the school-house. They continued the over-shadowing of the 
school in the home by home-work, and they directed the pupils 
to the slavery of wage-earning through vocational committees. 


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The general courses in the high-schools ignore entirely all 
woman arts, and the so-called “home-craft” course has in its 
first year only 4 periods devoted to home-craft out of 26,—in its 
second year, 9 out of 29,—in its third year, 15 out of 26 and in 
its fourth year, 6 out of 31. 

It may thus be safely asserted that when a girl of 18 leaves 
high school, she has received a smattering of every science on 
earth not connected with her womanhood, and that she has be¬ 
sides been trained into habits directly opposed to her home¬ 
making career. 

She has been kept away from home most of the day and has 
been broken in for physical immobility, interrupted only by two 
or three minutes of gymnastics and two periods of physical 
training a week. Her mind wearied by an indigestible accumu¬ 
lation of uninteresting studies, is tired of thinking and her body 
has lost its graceful suppleness. She has acquired shaky and 
uncontrolled gestures which rob her of her versatile activity. 
She finds ease and comfort in a sitting or reclining position 
only, thence the often well founded charge of laziness against 
women who do not have to be self-supporting. These con¬ 
ditions adapt the girl to activities impairing her natural develop¬ 
ment. 

The overtask imposed upon the school-girl’s nervous system 
keeps her in a perpetual state of nervousness and unrest. Her 
sensibilities crave for excitement and distraction, and her 
moments of quietness come only from exhaustion of nerve 
force. 

The constant call of the brain for reconstructive blood de¬ 
prives the rest of her organism of recuperative material, this 
at the time of growing when it is most needed. Such waste of 
energy prepares her for a physical and mental collapse when 
she marries, as she will lack reserve forces, which she needs to 
perform her natural functions of wife and mother, or she will 
be doomed to a life-long dragging of poor health especially 
aggravated by money-making drudgery. 


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No reports of principals or statements of woman’s clubs 
need be read to convince you of the truth of this assertion. 
Just go and see the girls come out of high-schools and colleges 
after school hours, and you will wonder what kind of woman¬ 
hood can grow from this emaciated and sallow complexioned 
humanity. You will not see plump and rosy cheeked young 
girls, but nervous wrecks or specimens of lymphatic fatness. 

School education, which should aim at facilitating the 
natural development of the human being, seems to have the 
purpose of defeating the course of nature. The education of 
the girl, which should make her fit in the highest degree to be 
A REAL WIFE OF MAN, turns her out with a crippled 
woman’s mind and body. It prepares the girl FOR AN 
EMERGENCY: “SELF-SUPPORT,” and hampers her FOR 
HER DESTINIES: WIFEHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD. 

Schools nowadays are wholesale factories of office, shop 
and store girls, which dump upon the market millions of misfits 
for one choice product that they may occasionally produce. 

This misfitting of girls is a monstrous and endless process, 
infertile in itself. These counterfeiting machines must per¬ 
manently be fed with the raw material of normal little girls, 
marked for the sacrifice since they were born. 

It parallels the pagan abomination so vividly described by 
Flaubert in “Salambo.” The Carthaginians, besieged in their 
city by the revolted Mercenaries, decided to offer to Moloch a 
great human holocaust, praying the god to save the city; 
and they threw into the brazen body of the idol, heated red 
hot, great numbers of boys, alive, gagged and bound, and 
vociferated: “These are not men, but oxen” and the multitude 
around repeated: “Oxen! Oxen!” 

The priests of Moloch in their sadic fanaticism burned little 
boys alive, so that it would rain, and parents, crazed at the sight 
of this atrocity, voluntarily offered children which the priests 
had not taken. 


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The modern Moloch, business, is not satisfied with taking 
the boys and delivering them to the burning god of war. It 
wants also the little girls to be sacrificed on its altar. And even 
as in Carthage, some fathers and mothers in another frenzy 
of fanaticism give their daughters to the sacrificator, not that 
rain may save the city, but to implore the new idol to drop a 
few of the dollars that the ruination of millions of girls’ and 
men’s lives will bring to the temple. 

It is outside the scope of this work to investigate the cause 
of this collective madness, and brand the culprits for the whole¬ 
sale sacrifice of youth,—but let us remark that all newspapers 
eulogize the social offense and that all welfare and public in¬ 
stitutions have made of such misdeeds their object. 

The woman, by becoming a mother, graduates as an educa¬ 
tor. Instinctively the mother trains the awakening senses of 
her baby. She teaches it to walk and to talk, and later on she 
coaches her little girl, with her heart and soul and by her 
precept and example, to become a woman. This, no school 
teaching can accomplish. 

Often the school-teachers declare with emphazis that the 
mothers should help the teachers. This is a misconception, for 
it is the mother who brings up her daughters, and it is the 
education she imparts that should be complemented and con¬ 
curred in at the school. 

School teaching must respect woman’s nature, help the girl 
in the harmonious development of her faculties and train her 
in refined activities. 

In the earlier years of childhood, physiological functions 
are virtually the same for boys and girls, so that similar 
schooling for both does not offer much danger. But when the 
the girl reaches the age of ten or twelve years, special functions 
require, for her, special conditions. Periods of study should 
be accommodated in such a way as will leave the girl free to 
exercise her proclivities for versatile action in manual as well 
as in intellectual activities. 


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The attractiveness of the woman is coupled with her state 
of health, for any young girl can be attractive, even beautiful, 
if properly cared for. This involves the practice of hygiene and 
dietetics, combined with special care of the hair, skin, teeth, 
nails and clothing in general. 

Technical instruction in these sciences and cares, and prac¬ 
tical demonstrations of them pertain to the school as an adjunct 
to the home education. These sciences are preliminaries to the 
woman's functions as wife and mother; they secure for the 
girl a healthy condition, and enable her later to intelligently 
make a proper choice of food and clothing for all the members 
of the family unit. 

For this purpose, a girl needs to be able to judge of the 
qualities of foodstuffs. She needs to know their nutritive 
value and how to prepare them appetizingly. She needs to 
understand the wearing apparel from shoe to bonnet. She 
must be an expert in clothing materials, and in the make of at 
least the simpler garments for herself and, later on when mar¬ 
ried, for her children. Refinement in the latter particular ac¬ 
tivities of the woman, will be marked by a dish cooked to the 
point, be it elaborate or plain food, and by a garment rightly 
fitting and elegantly cut. 

The training of the girl for personal hygiene will enable 
her to better understand and learn the special care of children. 
In older days girls learned in a practical way all they needed 
to know about children, because the family was more numerous, 
and because young married couples kept in close contact with 
their parents and sisters. The younger sister, the cousin and 
the niece, not having their time taken up by money-making 
activities, followed a course in motherhood by helping to 
care for the newborn baby of close relatives. But social con¬ 
ditions nowadays have been so distorted that young girls no 
longer have the same opportunity for such training in the 
present small and widely separated families, clustered in minute 
lodgings. Thus the school has to complement the home by 


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technical training in the class-room and practical training in 
the orphanage and maternity hospital. 

The girl having to become the educator of her children’s 
mentality, and the moral support of her husband, needs a 
proper course in psychology, not a breaking in discipline as it 
usually is practiced. There is nothing wrong, nor anything 
good, in having the girls march out of the school mili¬ 
tarily, stand at attention or keep silent in the class-room; for 
these are controlled movements and not a training to higher 
sentimentality. They are nothing but exercises in discipline, 
good for soldiers in whom automatism is a highly considered 
quality, but they are in no sense connected with woman’s ethics. 
These military rules may be useful at present in the girls’ 
schools because of their wrong organization, but would be use¬ 
less if the girls were educated as girls and not like boys. 

The observance of an imposed rule does not train in moral¬ 
ity; it is simply a showing of conventionality, which either 
cramps the girl’s life or against which she revolts, falling into 
the other extreme of extravagance and impropriety. 

To cultivate the morality of the human being, the sense of 
duty must be awakened, not the habit of obedience created. 
Morality is prompted by conscience and conscience is enlight¬ 
ened by knowledge. 

In order to inure the girl to follow her better sentiments, 
she needs to know herself as a woman. She needs to know the 
requirements of her nature and the inherent punishment that 
violation of her natural laws inevitably brings. Of this, the 
girl possesses an instinctive knowledge, but social conditions, 
with the pernicious example of successful wrongdoers, divert 
her from sane thinking to a chaos of conflicting principles, in¬ 
tuitions and expedients. 

The girl needs to be able to analyse the motives and results 
of the actions of other people, and appraise their moral value, no 
matter what the social standing of these people may be; and she 


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will be able to do it if care has been taken to properly educate 
her mentality. 

From the opinion the human being has of his own nature 
come his personal sentiments, and from the opinion he has of 
other people’s motives come his feelings toward them. 

Knowledge of the ethical value of human conduct is neces¬ 
sary to render an equitable judgment and form a sure opinion. 

Ethics, embodied in principles, are founded upon the wel¬ 
fare of the individual, and can be summarized in a few words: 
All actions tending toward the accomplishment of man’s natural 
laws are right, provided they do not harm another being who is 
entitled to similar rights,—and all actions which hamper the 
accomplishment of these laws are wrong. 

From the opinion which the woman has of her own nature 
come her personal sentiments. Thus it is obvious that she must 
be shown that the nobleness of womanhood lies in the accom¬ 
plishment of her natural calling, which, as you remember, has 
its foundation in modesty, passiveness, exclusiveness and per¬ 
manency,—that her sensitiveness is a needed protection against 
aggressiveness of man, who values the woman only in propor¬ 
tion to the respect she commands of him,—that the degradation 
of the woman comes from intercourse with men for the simple 
purpose of enjoyment or other material advantages, and has 
its counterpart in the innermost contempt the man feels for the 
woman who forgets her moral laws for his satisfaction. 

Knowledge of these facts foster self-respect in the woman, 
and evidence of her personal qualities gives her pride for her 
achievements. 

By the enlightened judgment of her woman’s conscience, 
the girl is able to find what is wrong in the examples that life 
brings to her attention. She will pity the woman of deficient 
mentality and strengthen herself in the habit of sane life. 

By a process of mental education similar to that by which 
the woman evolves from modesty to self-respect, the child and 
the growing girl train their mentality to replace an obscure and 


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hasty impression by a just appreciation of actions affecting 
their personality. Obscure and hasty impressions give vent to 
uncontrolled expressions of sentiments,—these the girl needs 
for self-defense during her early years, but they would cause 
her endless trouble later on, when she has to face the real prob¬ 
lems of life. 

In order to enlighten her mentality the girl must learn to 
find the inner motives for the actions of other people and to 
understand their mentality. The girl must be trained to judge 
actions as they are intended, and not as they result. This will 
enable the girl to befriend the good and avoid the bad, if they 
are strangers. Such enlightenment of conscience will enable 
the girl to judge the moral value of her own actions and lead 
her away from grudge, malice and revenge to a general better¬ 
ment of herself. 

She will benefit still more by this general training when 
she becomes a home-maker. She will be able to avoid misun¬ 
derstandings which, when repeated degenerate into estrange¬ 
ment, and to give her husband all the moral support he needs, 
either in success or in failure. 

This same enlightenment of mentality will endow the mother 
with the proper means to train her boys to real manhood and 
her girls to refined womanhood, instead of making of them 
young animals bent upon the immediate satisfaction of their 
whims and desires by easy and often unfair ways. The mother 
cannot instil into their minds the spirit of duty if her own con¬ 
sciousness is encompassed with meanness and spite. She can¬ 
not take proper care of her husband and children if she con¬ 
siders as personal offenses the inconvenience they may cause 
her. 

Just as it was the case for the physical education of the girl, 
her mental education must be progressive from babyhood to 
womanhood, starting at home and complemented by the school, 
until there is the realization in her of superior womanhood. 


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The rules for conduct that the study of psychology dis¬ 
closes are similar to the principles which Religion edicts; and 
Religion should be taught to the girl concurrently with psy¬ 
chology, for it is the WILL OF GOD that created the human 
being as it is, that organized the woman in dependency to man, 
that co-ordinated and combined the relative positions, rights 
and duties of man and woman for the happiness of both. 
Psychology is the human knowledge of the Soul,—Religion is 
its Divine Revelation. Psychology gives the human reasons for 
abiding the teachings of the Decalogue. 

It is the province of intelligence to understand, to judge 
and to reason, and it is the benefit of civilization to use man’s 
intellectual activities most extensively in all instances,—thus 
the girl must have her intelligence trained for self-thinking. 

The process of thinking being the same in man as in woman, 
the difference in intellectual education between boy and girl 
should be in the subjects proposed for their understandings. 
These subjects should be those which are the most useful in 
the accomplishment of their destiny. 

The intellectual training of the girl must have, for its first 
and main object, her womanhood. So besides language and 
calculation, which are the elementary vehicles of learning, she 
should understand perfectly hygiene and dietetics with their 
foundation of anatomy, physiology and physiologic-chemistry, 
so as to know the proper care of children and adults. 

She must know these sciences, not as memorized lessons, but 
as practical matters of everyday use, as an accountant knows 
accounting, as an architect knows the strength and properties 
of the materials he chooses for a building,—because she is 
bound to apply them during her whole life. 

The girl must be thoroughly conversant with the elements 
of psychology, for she is the main hinge of civilization which 
works through the mentality of the people. 

She must be taught the origin of sentiments, their value and 


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their natural succession, their relation with human conscience 
and will, because she is the born educator of mankind. 

Because she is a creature of grace and loveliness, because 
she is by decree of nature the home-maker, the woman’s esthetic 
sense and her love for the beautiful must be cultivated in their 
most varied objects,—from dress and house-furniture to arts 
and literature. The understanding of the beauty of form and 
expression in a statue, of the purity of style in literature, of 
the consistency of action in a play and of the truth of its 
characters, provokes the esthetic pleasure and refines the taste 
in the choice of entertainments and relaxations. This culture 
will replace the nervous giggle and the sly wink of the 
little girls by a smile of pure satisfaction, when, in spite of 
their teacher’s strategy, they come upon a nude figure in an 
art gallery. It will avoid hysterical laughter at the pathetic 
moment of a drama, and curtain calls for vaudeville or burles¬ 
que performers profaning human nature. 

Estheticism is the morality of senses and calls for decency, 
even in sensual appeals. 

Bad writers clothe crude stories in uncultured language 
to sell their books. Bad players use indecent or eccen¬ 
tric gestures to attract attention. Homely women bare what 
they should hide in an effort to appeal to their victims. But 
their stories, their impropriety and their exhibitions lure only 
lower humanity, for their style, their acting and their homeliness 
are too repulsive to the mind of cultured people to entice their 
senses. Esthetics must thus be taught to the girl because of 
the attractiveness of her nature, because she makes the pleasant¬ 
ness of the home and because she is the entertainer in social in¬ 
tercourse. 

When the girl has thoroughly mastered these sciences and 
arts, there will be no harm, if she feels so inclined and possesses 
special aptitudes, to take up such unnecessary studies as Latin, 
Greek, Physics, Mathematics, or Astronomy in their elemen¬ 
tary degrees, and, if proficient, in their higher courses, so as not 


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to deprive science at large of the contribution of helpful colla¬ 
borators. 

Such a system of education would make all girls good pro¬ 
spective wives and mothers, not sacrificing the mass for the few 
that may, perhaps, become eminent. 

This proves that home life does not hamper the 1 intellectual 
development of the woman, but that there is matter enough in 
home and family life to exert the mind of the most intellectual 
woman. It shows that the simple and unnoticed home-woman 
needs more intellectual power for the accomplishment of her 
functions than the public woman who blunders in the fields of 
industry, sciences, business or politics. 

This education does not deprive the woman of liberty or 
opportunity, but it fits her to cultivate first her little flower 
garden where she can come back and rest if the duress of life 
compels her to till the rocky fields of self-support. It prepares 
the girl for the purposes of her being, through the refinement 
and exercise of her womanly faculties and inclinations. 


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CHAPTER III. 

War and the Woman. 

War, in itself, is an unnatural state of human society. It 
is a parenthesis of barbarism opened in the evolution of pro¬ 
gress. This abnormal state of society imposes upon the whole 
of the belligerent countries abnormal conditions, which also 
bear upon the accomplishment of the woman's natural laws. 

Husbands and wives are separated. The bread-winner is 
taken away from the home, and the wife alone is relied upon 
for the support of herself and children. Young men have to 
leave their sweethearts behind, alone and wondering if they will 
ever come back. 

War brings new demands for labor, and the woman is called 
upon to furnish it. A very large number of men are taken from 
their usual work for military service and have to be replaced. 
The organization of an army requires a considerable enlarge¬ 
ment of the administration. The equipment of that same army 
calls upon all industries for implements of every kind, not 
only when the army is in the making but even more when it has 
attained its full strength on the battle line. 

Under the patriotic caption of “Help Win The War,” girls, 
wives and mothers were lured from the home to the mills, fac¬ 
tories and offices, while the great majority of them could have 
been spared if there had not been a tremendous waste of man- 
labor in all enterprises, and especially under the cost plus pro¬ 
fit system as was made public during the Hog Island investi¬ 
gation. 

At the beginning of the war, President Wilson, whom the 
suffrage agitation and pleas had failed to move, found it op¬ 
portune to enlist the suffragettes as propagandists for his war 
policies, after he had secured his re-election on the assumption 


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that he would keep t the country out of the war,—and he 
recommended the adoption of the woman suffrage bill. This 
opportunist policy brought about the passage of the constitu¬ 
tional amendment which was passed in the Senate under 
pressure of a certain card-index that in plain language would 
be called black-mail. 

Suffrage adopted, the women plagued the authorities for 
big titled sinecures and they were delivered by batches into a 
thousand and one useless committees, where they could not do 
much good, but where they were allowed to bother somewhat 
the opponents of those in power. They were besides given 
license to annoy the people of the United States at large. 

The war was fought in France, but history will assert that 
the beseiging was done in the United States. The fortresses 
that the modern Amazons surrounded and attacked in mass 
formations of busybodies, were the offices of Nation, State and 
City Departments. Administrations were bombarded with 
pledges, and requests for authorizations, hounded for favors 
and bedevilled with queries and complaints. But Americans 
were not alone their target, they actually aimed at all the mem¬ 
bers of the foreign Missions and Consulates, who very often 
lost valuable time trying to dodge the WOMEN in order to 
save still more time by not listening to them. 

Through the war the woman, as the feminist propagandist 
is wont to say, “at last came into her own.” Indeed she pene¬ 
trated everywhere, and at the end of the hostilities she could 
be found strongly settled in all places except her home. 

“WOMEN” did all that, and were decorated, wore buttons, 
badges and uniforms. They were addressed as Miss Chairman, 
as Miss Secretary, as Miss Treasurer. They had their por¬ 
traits, large and small, in the daily papers, Sunday editions and 
magazines. 

Yes, “WOMEN” did all that,—Women, that is to say, the 
wives, sisters, daughters and aunts of professional politicians 


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and big business men, with some extra spinsters and home- 
slackers. And these WOMEN still are doing it. But the 
German, who was the indirect object of their febrile activities, 
is no longer a fit target for the modern Amazons, and their 
fearless battalions of death train their guns in deadly civil 
war on the unspeakable male, and on the unvirile female of 
the species, who still remains chained down in some remote and 
dark corner of the prehistoric and cavernal home,—poor 
reminder of past slavery ages, caring for a mere husband, and 
bearing children of her own when it is so easy to exert one’s 
authority over other people’s children! 

Yes, “WOMEN” did all that, and still are doing it. But 
there were humble girls, who did not have their portraits in 
the papers, who had very little time to wear a uniform except 
a white bonnet and a white apron and did not care for parading 
up Fifth Avenue unless the WOMEN had them do it. These 
were girls who had their pictures taken by the two dollar kodak 
of brother, instead of struggling five years long through police 
barrages in order to force themselves near prominent people 
whose picture was taken, as certain female colonels used to 
do. All these girls were shy, modest and kindhearted, and 
they did something else: They just simply left good and com¬ 
fortable homes and untitled little business positions, and went 
either over there or over here to take care of wounded brothers, 
sweethearts or husbands of other girls, that the raging battles 
sent them by wholesale. 

They, just like the “WOMEN,” waited for hours in big 
solemn buildings, but their waiting was gentle and attentive at 
the bedside of Jim or Jack; to watch over Jim in his delirium, 
or help Jack write his farewell note to his mother and the girl 
he left behind. They coaxed or ordered people to do their 
will, but that was to have Jim take his potion or stop Jack 
from hurting hi si broken arm. 

They saw suffering and death, cheered while wounds were 
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months and months, the very soul of humanity vibrate in the 
pain of the wounded brought in,—in the childish joy of the 
convalescent,—in the sigh of the moribund. And they came 
back just plain girls, just as they went. They came back to 
their home-folks, settled down, married, cared for a husband 
and children, unconscious that they had played THE ONE 
BIG PART OF THE WOMAN IN WAR TIME. 

They did feel, act and work as women, and it was not 
against these modest girls that the Governments of France and 
Great Britain took drastic measures of exclusion. It was 
against THE WOMEN with big spectacles and letter-cases 
who now claim room for further activities and rights as a re¬ 
ward for their work during the war, when they did GO OUT 
OF THEIR OWN. 

There were other war-workers and these were the nice 
young girls who came to the rescue of the Government in its 
need of clerical forces. They took a vacation from life into the 
respected mansions of the Administration, and enjoyed their 
little task with the consciousness and pride of the little girl 
whom her mother has allowed to help her set the table for 
dinner. They still are nice young girls, and while setting the 
table for hubby’s dinner, they will recall with amusement the 
“flight they took’’ into the Administration. 

But there is still another kind of war-worker, and she was 
lured OUT OF HER OWN and proves now to be amongst all 
the women the worst victim of the war. She is the industrial 
and agricultural war-worker. 

Before the war there were but few industrial and agricul¬ 
tural girl-laborers. They worked at some plant, factory or 
farm in their home-town, living amongst their own people, 
almost in a liome-like way. The modest earnings of these 
daughters of the poorest complemented the inadequate re¬ 
sources of the family. Their industrial and agricultural work 
was a question of emergency while they grew up to become the 
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otherwise incapacitated. In spite of often questionable prom¬ 
iscuity, they could remain wholesome women or return to nor¬ 
mal life through maternity. But as the demand for war im¬ 
plements increased, new and immense factories were built, and 
girls from all over the country were attracted by incredibly 
high wages to industrial towns or far-away farms. 

They were drafted from all kinds of woman’s work, rooted 
out of the moralizing surroundings which even the poorest 
home provides, and isolated in strange towns. They were 
packed, five or six chance acquaintances, in one uninhabitable 
room and chased by mental loneliness to public amusement 
places. And there, mixing with men of all sorts of character, 
they fell victims to their craving for excitement and fun. 

The fate of these girls was, in many respects, similar to 
that of the female population of the invaded countries, who, 
fleeing the enemy, the families broken up and dispersed, were 
left practically unsheltered at the mercy of the sexual instinct 
of vast bodies of men garrisoning the towns. 

The end of the war, with the resultant closing of many 
factories and plants and with the return of millions of men, has 
thrown a great number of girls out of employment with no 
home to go to, and no possible reversion to pre-war conditions 
of subsistence. 

The high cost of living and the loss of their former station 
in life compel them to strive to retain in changed conditions 
their hold on industrial and agricultural salariat. Many a girl, 
who was a home girl before the war, went to work under the 
necessity of providing for herself or because she was attracted 
by the frenzy of war times, and now finds herself caught in 
the gearing chain of the “work to live” and “live to work” 
conditions. 

This disruption of the social order and organization impels 
the working girl to ask for war conditions in peace time. The 
laws that protect her in her femininity handicap her as a 
salaried worker. She is the negro behind the hole in the 


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screen, who, to be paid, must make faces at the refined sports¬ 
men in the “throw the ball” game. “Starve or get the ball” is 
their dilemma, and they stand for the ball. 

War, under the stimulus of our Committee WOMEN, has 
also affected the society girls and the middle-class girls. 

The society girls were associated with the WOMEN in all 
their multiple activities. They were grouped in committees, 
sub-committees, sections of sub-committees, executive commit¬ 
tees and the like, enough to give half a dozen of titles to each 
of the girls. They were made to beg and smile for alms from 
strangers in bazaars, at public functions and even on the streets. 

These activities have created in the girls new habits of 
living and diverted their thoughts from their natural callings 
in life. The war has wrought no change in their nature. They 
are, just as they were before and as they always will be, in 
quest of satisfaction of their vanity. Perhaps their pictures 
in the Sunday papers will appear less often with the caption 
“Charming debutante” or “Leader in the younger set,” but it 
is replaced by “Prominent among war workers” or “President 
of the Make-believe Utility Club.” 

They 'will marry just the same, bear one or two children, 
divorce and marry half a dozen times more and become one of 
the much heralded prominent women. Meanwhile the world 
will continue to go round and round, for whether a society 
girl marries or not, whether she is the best golfer of her set, 
or whether she is the much-sought after debutante is of very 
little importance to the nation, and of no importance at all to 
humanity at large. 

These girls, nice as all young girls are, although covering 
large spaces in newspapers and using a good deal of public 
wealth, are but few in number, and their influence upon the 
future of the nation is accordingly restricted. 

But besides these war-workers there is still another group 
of girls, and these are not the least important in number and 


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in bearing upon the nation’s future,—it is the group of the 
middle-class girls. 

They were home-girls of moderate means before the war, 
girls whose home-life had to a certain extent remedied the ef¬ 
fects of high-school education. The older of these girls found 
themselves constrained by the high cost of living and the in¬ 
adequate earnings of the middle-class people to seek business 
positions, spending in offices and shops that period of their life 
most appropriate for mating. Now that the war is over, their 
own status, just as was the case with the laboring-girl, cannot 
revert automatically to pre-war conditions. They are sentenced 
to “life-labor” because the salary of a middle-class man does 
not decently maintain a married couple. 

This unfortunate situation might have caused the waste of 
only one generation of womanhood and normal conditions 
would, in time, have been restored by the elimination of these 
victims of the war, had not the WOMEN’S PROPAGANDA 
urged the younger of the middle-class girls to enter business 
careers which keep them from normal evolution during their 
studies, because love and marriage would hinder their efficient 
business preparation, and, after studies are completed, because 
wifehood and motherhood would antagonize their business 
positions. 

Such are the different specimens of what is pompously 
called “the new woman,” the woman “who has come into her 
own,” the woman dear to the heart of the feminist leaders. 

It is clearly apparent that the women who have been affected 
by the war are divided into two categories. In the first, we have 
the promoters and exponents of feminism, who build their own 
repute and fortune upon the wrecking of womanhood; who 
profit through the misfortune of their sisters, and who can 
exist only upon the disruption of the home and the sophistica¬ 
tion of the young girl. They are the she-politicians bent upon 
the satisfaction of their ambitions, no matter what may be the 
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destroy the legitimate influence of the husband over his wife, 
the authority of the father over his daughters, and throw apart, 
unsupported and helpless, the members of the family unit. 
Their hopes are founded upon the wrecked happiness of wives 
and mothers,—upon the isolation of the girls. They advocate 
celibacy and independence from authority of a husband, but de¬ 
pendence upon women leaders who are strangers, eager for 
usurped authority and demagogic despotism. These are pro¬ 
fiteers of the war, benefiting by the rape of women’s soul, heart, 
dignity and flesh. 

In the second category of women who have been affected by 
the war come the victims of the war, the young girls, the wives 
and the mothers who have been snatched from home and 
dumped into the business world for the money-making purposes 
of the financiers and for the ridiculous ambition of the 
WOMEN. 

They are panting human flesh fed to the wolves of civiliza¬ 
tion, after their womanly dignity has been defiled, their souls 
corrupted, their affections derided, their bodies rented out for 
a few dollars a week. 

These are, in plain words, the effects of the war upon 
womanhood. War has shown once more what splendid treas¬ 
ures of self-sacrifice and goodness there is in the feminine 
soul, but it has also given an outlet to the insanity of feminism 
and has consummated the degradation of many a girl and many 
a woman. 

War is a social disease, the cure of which may call for 
drastic treatments. 

The stimulant of feminism which was administered to the 
nation during the war, now that it is given to a society in 
normal conditions, threatens to undermine the vitality of the 
race. It is that very drugging of the nation which feminists 
endeavor to perpetuate and increase when the emergency for 
its use has passed. 


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But the WOMEN are not alone to blame for this attack 
upon human welfare. Their efforts would have been futile, 
had they not been utilized by that conspiracy of the Unseen 
Powers who, through the submission of professional politicians, 
tend to make of the United States an immense work-house to 
which the entire nation,—man and woman, boy and girl,—is 
sentenced to life-long hard-labor in order to pay an ever in¬ 
creased tithe to its hidden masters. 


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PART VII. 

THE FEMINIST EVIL. 


A Few Confessions. 

When we condemned feminism as tending toward the dis¬ 
ruption of the family, the perversion of womanhood and the 
enslavement of the woman, we would give vent to only a poor 
outburst of rhetoric if we had no proofs to back such state¬ 
ments. But the proofs are numerous and we will submit to the 
reader a few declarations of prominent women, which can¬ 
not leave the slightest doubt of the evil aims of Feminism. 

At the International Convention of women physicians held 
at the Young Women’s Christian Association in New York in 
the Fall of 1919, these ladies were generally right to the point 
when exposing the technicalities of their profession, but fell into 
the most monstrous heresies when they had to draw conclusions 
from the facts they enunciated. 

Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman distinguished herself par¬ 
ticularity in this sport. She laid emphasis on eliminating house¬ 
hold drudgery so the woman might do outside work. She 
includes in this drudgery the care of children which should be 
done by trained nurses on the wholesale plan. “Women’s talent 
goes to waste,” she said, “because of the tradition that women 
must confine their interest to home and children.” 

So it appears that one of the foundations of feminism is 
that the woman must leave her house and go outside to work. 
Other women will be trained to do the “house drudgery” and 
bring up their children for' them, while the wives and mothers 
will go out to work and become efficient mechanics, floor¬ 
walkers, doctors and ash-can lifters. 


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Another sensible lady explained that “the Y. W. C. A. had 
inaugurated a training course for home assistants to place 
domestic service on the same dignified basis as clerical work, 
trained nursing or any of the professions into which women 
are admitted.” 

People may wonder why it is a dignified profession to care 
for another woman’s home and children, but a drudgery to care 
for one’s own home and children. But these people have not 
escaped yet from the bondage of logic. They are still in the 
darkness of past ages. 

The truth is that Feminism is set up on the destruction of 
the family ties,—that its only object is to substitute the author¬ 
ity and influence of strange committee women and political 
organizations for the natural and beneficent authority of the 
husband over his wife and of the father over his children. It 
tends to separate the natural protector from his proteges, and 
if possible to antagonize them, in order to make of the woman 
an easier prey. Anything that helps to chase the woman out of 
the home and casts her adrift into the world is good to 
Feminism, and so also is anything that takes away the child 
from the authority of its parents. 

So Miss Alice Paul, Chairman of the Woman's Party, an¬ 
nounced on October 24, 1920, that a conference of the National 
Woman’s party and women delegates from every civilized 
nation, beginning the next day, would demand state care for 
children. 

“Under present laws,’’ she said, “the father has exclusive 
control over his children. He may select their careers, choose 
their schools, and otherwise dispose of them as he sees fit, 
without consent of the mother. Enfranchised women do not 
believe this condition is tenable.’’ 

“We intend to insist also that the State assume entire re¬ 
sponsibility for the maintenance and education of children 
until they become of age.” 


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Our indictment against Feminism is further borne out by 
statements of public women who attended in Washington an 
Americanization conference under the auspices of the Bureau 
of Education, Department of the Interior. Under the parading 
of Americanization, workers of a number of organizations in¬ 
trude into the private life and homes of foreign born residents 
of the United States, pestering these people into discontent and 
grievance, to convert them to doctrines which have nothing to 
do with patriotism. 

Telling about her work, Mrs. Mary G. Simkhovitch, of the 
United Neighborhood Houses of New York, says: “Freedom 
of the woman and the child is what we should be working for 
in considering AMERICANIZING THE HOME LIFE of 
the foreigner who comes to us. We free the child to a certain 
extent by insisting on education for all children. WE FREE 
THE LIFE OF THE WOMAN to a certain extent BY 
OPENING THE DOORS OF FACTORIES AND SHOPS 
AND OFFICES TO HER.” 

To Mrs. Mary G. Simkhovitch, I will oppose former Deputy 
Commissioner Ellen O’Grady, commenting upon the suicide of 
a girl, eleven years old,—a “little mother” who cared for three 
younger children while her mother and father were working. 
This little girl jumped out of a window on the fifth floor be¬ 
cause she feared her father would punish her for scratching 
another girl after a quarrel over mud pies. 

“If the child could have run into the sympathetic arms 
of her mother,” said the Lady Deputy Commissioner, “that 
would have been the end of her trouble, but the MOTHER 
WAS AT WORK IN A FACTORY, AND THE CHILD 
HAD NO ONE TO COMFORT HER. 

“I feel very keenly on this subject of neglected children. 
In my experience in the Police Department, and before that 
as probation officer at the New Jersey Avenue Court, where 
by the way, Mayor Plylan presided on the bench, I have had 
hundreds of such cases brought to my attention. IT IS ONE 


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OF THE CRYING SHAMES OF MODERN CIVILIZA¬ 
TION. 

“No wonder the girls go wrong and the boys grow into 
criminals. They never have a chance to be otherwise. They 
are left by their mothers to wallow in the gutters.” 

Mrs. O’Grady, says the New York Journal from which 
these abstracts are taken, was in charge of the Welfare Bureau 
of the Police Department, which in 1919 handled 14,000 cases 
of child delinquents. She said further: 

“We get girls here who would never have gone wrong if 
the MOTHERS HAD BEEN REAL MOTHERS TO 

THEM.There are certain foreigners, who come to this 

country to hoard money to enable them to return to the old 
country and live comfortably. It is unfortunate that in their 
quest of wealth they neglect their children. 

“MOTHERS MUST BE COMPELLED TO REMAIN 
HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN, AND FATHERS 
MUST BE FORCED TO WORK.IF THEIR HUS¬ 

BANDS ARE WORKING IT IS THEIR PLACE (the 
mothers’) TO BE HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN.” 

Mrs. O’Grady is right, except in her outburst of xenophobia. 
It is the duty of the woman to be at home,—and Mrs. O’Grady’s 
findings condemn FEMINIST AMERICANIZATION BY 
WHICH, as Mrs. Simkovitch puts it, “WE FREE THE 
LIFE OF THE WOMAN TO A CERTAIN EXTENT BY 
OPENING THE DOOR OF FACTORIES AND SHOPS 
AND OFFICES TO HER.” These findings lay the guilt for 
the ruin of young girls and boys upon the WOMEN and their 
accomplice, the BUSINESS MAN. 

But Mrs. O’Grady is wrong in her attack on the foreign 
man, who is not so lazy as she thinks, for it is by the foreigner 
that most of the heavy and productive work is done in the 
United States. And foreigners would not work so hard to be 
able to go back to the old country if they were not on their 
arrival here subjected to cattle-like treatment at Ellis Island, 




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continued afterward by numberless societies, social and politi¬ 
cal. It is because they were left alone that former foreigners 
settled and bore children who are the Americans of today, and 
it is only by leaving them alone that new foreigners will be 
made to feel at home and settle, filling the gap that feminism 
and commercialization of the woman are making in the mother¬ 
hood of the country. 

Mrs. SimkovitclTs declaration finds its counterpart in a 
statement made by Mrs. Frederick Schoff, President of the 
“Congress of Mothers and the Parent Teacher Associations,” 
who asserted that “one of the greatest obstacles in our efforts to 
reach THE FOREIGN BORN WOMAN has been the foreign 
born man’s antagonism to her taking part in the community 
life. If the Americanization movement would only help the 
foreign born man TO BECOME AN AMERICAN TO THE 
EXTENT THAT HE WILL ENCOURAGE HIS WIFE 
TO ATTEND CLUB MEETINGS where she can hear lec¬ 
tures, our work will be half done.” 

Please, Mrs. Schoff, sines when is it Americanism to 
send one’s wife out to a club where she will be preached to rebel 
against her husband, where she will be taught that she must 
free herself by hiring out to some business concern; that a 
husband is just good enough to be divorced when a better 
matrimonial job is in sight? DO AMERICAN BORN MEN 
SEND THEIR WIVES TO THE CLUBS? OR DO THEY 
DIVORCE THEM WHEN THEY ARE STRICKEN 
WITH YOUR BRAND OF AMERICANISM? 

These candid admissions by prominent women, speaking in 
a semi-official capacity, leave no other alternative but to con¬ 
clude that FEMINISM AIMS AT THE DESTRUCTION 
OF THE HOME AND FAMILY, AND IS AN ELEMENT 
OF SOCIAL DISORDER. 

Feminist-Americanism is purely anti-national and unpatri¬ 
otic,—it endangers the national welfare for personal advan- 
tanges. 


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Feminism is sterilizing America, and the breaking up of the 
foreigner’s family will only increase the harm. 

In connection with this matter the editorial opinion of the 
New York Times on the birth rate is most interesting. It says: 
“The birth rate problem is BY NO MEANS UNIQUE 
WITH FRANCE. Among AMERICANS OF THE 
OLDER STOCK IT IS LITTLE, IF AT ALL, LESS 
SERIOUS.” 

This is corroborated by the Weekly Bulletin of the Depart¬ 
ment of Health of New York City, issue of September 5, 1919, 
which reads: “During the first eight months this year 86,380 
births were recorded as against 94,955 for the corresponding 
period of 1918, a reduction of\ 8,575 for the eight months.” 
Commenting on these statistics, the Bulletin said: “REDUC¬ 
TION IN THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS DURING 1919 
MAY BE EXPLAINED ON THE GROUND OF (a) 
RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION, THE BIRTH 
RATE OF OUR FOREIGN POPULATION ALWAYS 
BEING HIGHER THAN IN NATIVES; (b) fewer mar¬ 
riages, because of economic conditions; THE ENTRANCE 
OF A LARGER NUMBER OF WOMEN INTO PRO¬ 
FESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS, which 
places them in a position of financial independence.” 

This makes it still more evident that the feminist theories 
which advocate isolation of the woman and self support are 
not only inimical to the family as a unit and to the individual 
members of the family, but also to the advancement of the 
nation. 

The New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs, in its 
26th annual convention, on October 14, 1920, voted a resolution 
“that the New York State Federation of Women’s Clubs urge 
the speedy removal of all barriers, due to legal restriction, pre¬ 
judice or ignorance, which now prevent parents from access 
to such scientific knowledge on birth control as is possessed by 
the medical profession.” 


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This resolution was passed under the pretense that “the 
lack of knowledge as how to secure an intelligently determined 
interval between pregnancies frequently results in serious 
disasters for mothers and babies. THE INTERVAL BE¬ 
TWEEN PREGNANCIES IS TO BE SECURED BY 
REGULATING THE INCEPTION OF LIFE AND NOT 
BY INTERFERING WITH LIFE AFTER IT STARTS.” 

Such a resolution is a confession. 

These WOMEN should have remembered that, as a rule, 
the children of large families, unless underfed, are, together 
with their mothers, a healthy and happy crowd, while THE 
WIFE WHO PRACTICES BIRTH CONTROL BEARS 
ONE OR TWO WEAK AND PUNY CHILDREN WHOSE 
COMING SHE DID NOT SUCCEED IN PREVENTING. 
Poor and unwelcome guests of selfish hosts. 

That resolution was adopted by 149 votes as against 97 for 
rejection. Most of the latter were cast by Catholic women. 
It will teach these ladies that no benefit can be reaped from 
keeping up with bad company. 

Feminism not only fights the unborn child but by profess¬ 
ing to despise the “profession” of child-bearing, is still further 
antagonistic to the child already born. 

Dr. R. S. Copeland, Health Commissioner of New York, 
told the Fair Price Milk Committee that 300,000 children in 
New York, or about 30 per cent of the child-population, are 
underfed. Dr. Frederic Peterson told the Convention of 
Women-Physicians that 1,500,000 out of 2,200,000 school- 
children of this city have defects that can be remedied. Mr. 
Ben Howe, Secretary of the Community Council for Defense, 
declared that the underfed children were the children of under¬ 
paid people. Mrs. Irene Osgood Andrews, who is advocating 
a maternity insurance by which the state would pay the women 
to stay at home to care for their children, declared at the 
Convention of Women-Physicians: “It is in the home where 
the mother is obliged to work that the greatest number of babies 


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die. Motherhood must be recognized as a distinct service to the 
community. ,, Such also is the opinion of the Doctors of the 
Visiting Nurses Society, who say: “The sick child fares better 
at home than in a hospital, provided it has the proper care.” 
But as Mrs. Andrews stated at the convention of Women-Phy- 
sicians: “Mothers do not go out of the home to cultivate their 
talents, but because children need shoes and bread.” 

The Pediatric section of the New York Academy of Medi¬ 
cine in March, 1920, differed not at all with what is said above 
on caring for children in the home or in hospitals and institu¬ 
tions. Dr. Philip> von Ingen said that the death rate for eleven 
New York State Institutions which devote themselves to babies 
was 422 per 1000 for children under two years of age. In one 
New York City institution the death rate for babies under a 
year was 516 per 1000. IN HOMES THE DEATH RATE 
WAS ONLY 30 OR 40 PER THOUSAND. 

“Children away from their homes and parents,” said Dr. 
Hill, “are unhappy, homesick and often uncomfortable or even 
comparatively neglected. When they are discharged they go 
back to the old environment, which may be responsible for the 
illness and which has not been influenced by their stay in the 
hospital.” 

And contrary to the WOMEN-PHYSICIANS the New 
York Academy of Medicine found experience proved that 
“babies did far better in the care of foster mothers than they 
did in that of the most experienced nurses.” 

So the unintended testimony of people who are in the proper 
position to know the exact conditions of human society bear 
out the findings of the study of woman's nature, condeming 
implicitly the feminist evil in its contention that “the household 
drudgery must be eliminated so the woman might do outside 
work.” 

The WOMEN-PHYSICIANS of the Convention say “that 
the ignorance of women in matters of sex, and their lack of 


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understanding of their own emotional impulses were bound up 

with their physical weaknesses.Women too often believed 

themselves physically unequal to independent economic life and 
so submitted to unhappy marriage.” So declared Dr. Anna L. 
Brown, inferring by that, that women marry because they are 
physical misfits, but she herself forgot it is “the woman’s own 
emotional impulses” bound up with- her physical constitution 
which make marriage a necessity for the healthy girl; whereas 
it is only a desire for the girl “bound by physical weaknesses.” 
Dr. Brown forgot that a sickly girl can be a very proficient 
office manager, but would be a very poor mother. 

The WOMEN-PHYSICIANS also dwelt upon the ignor¬ 
ance of the mothers in the care of their children, which is also 
frequently exposed by the Visiting Nurses Society. The latter, 
in an article that appeared in the New York Times, January 
26, 1920, said: “Although many agencies co-operate in the 
care of the child, the latter still spends most of its time with 
its mother. Therefore, no matter how much knowledge there 
is which is of benefit to the child, if there were no one to con¬ 
vey this information to the mother she would be none the wiser 
and the child none the healthier.” 

Thus the feminists themselves are compelled to admit that 
training is needed for the care of babies, and that, as the 
Visiting Nurses Society says, “Maternal instinct is not and 
never can be, a substitute for training in the care of children,” 
—which will be true if you precede the sentence by the words 
“IN OUR PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY,” 
for it is only by means of maternal instinct that the human race 
and all species of undomesticated animals have been perpetu¬ 
ated thus far. 

Admitting that the woman needs to be physically fit for 
child-bearing and that the care of children cannot properly be 
performed without previous training, would it not be the right 
conclusion that we should train the girl to become a healthy 
wife and a wise mother, instead of making her an athletic 



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champion or an office-girl? Why call upon strangers to per¬ 
form the functions of the wife and mother if it is beneficial to 
all that the wife and mother perform them ? 

How would you brand the action of a guardian who sends 
his ward, the heir to a banking house, to be trained on some¬ 
body else’s farm as a preparation for his banking career? Would 
it not appear to you as plain folly? And if the guardian acted 
thusly to further his own interests,—in order to keep control of 
the business when the young man comes into his own,—would 
you not call it an abuse ? 

Feminism is an unfair guardian. Girls are wards, whose 
femininity is an inalienable inheritance which it is their right 
and duty to cultivate for their own benefit and enjoyment. 

That Feminist theories destroy the home and happiness is 
further demonstrated by the number of divorces and a study 
of their causes. 

The custodians of records of New York City estimated that 
separations and annulment of marriages during 1919 in New 
York totalled 2,670, an increase of 100 per cent over those in 
1918. Divorce, separation and annulment suits begun totalled 
4,005, an increase of about 1,000 over 1918. New cases of all 
classes totalled 33,788. 

As for their causes, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Green- 
baum said: “It is due to the lack of sanctity in the home, the 
looseness of modern times and the insane fly-by-night method 
of living. 

Supreme Court Justice Vernon M. Davis said: “The mar¬ 
riage vow is not respected or considered by countless thou¬ 
sands.” 

Justice Benedict of the Brooklyn Supreme Court expresses 
the following opinion: “It has become my firm conviction, after 
many years’ experience upon the bench, that the only really 
effective way to cure the so-called divorce evil would be to 
make it practically impossible for either party to the marriage 
to marry any one else during the life-time of the other party.” 


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“I am aware that such a rule would, in a small number of 
cases, work an apparent hardship,” Justice Benedict added. 
“After listening to the evidence in many hundred actions of 
this sort, I believe a very large proportion of these actions 
would never have been brought if the plaintiff were prohibited 
from contracting a new alliance, arrangements for which are 
not infrequently made before the suit is begun.” 

Commenting on the number of divorce cases, Mrs. Ella A. 
Perkins, lawyer and criminologist, said: “Our boys and girls 
lack depth and they hurry into something that is NO LONGER 
SACRED TO THEM.” 

Why marriage is no longer sacred to them can be explained 
to us by England’s experience during the last war. 

A study made in London by Shaw Desmond and published 
in November, 1919, in the New York Sun, said that three 
thousand divorce cases were awaiting the opening of the courts, 
and, in his analysis, he said he had found that “the young 
middle-class English girl for the first time (during the war) 
discovered a curious creature from which, except under cer¬ 
tain conditions and subjected to draconian laws, she had hither¬ 
to been held separate. Working side by side with it in the 
democratic, devastating days of war, comrades in splendid 
adventures, she discovered golden virtues, and, alas, ungolden 
vices, hitherto unsuspected. Her sister of the working class, 
closer to life’s realties, including the creature in question, un¬ 
segregated—still made her discoveries.Remember what 

this association meant. It meant that all hours of day and night, 
often under circumstances of isolation, tens of thousand of 
young impressionable girls and men in whom the fires of life 
burnt high, were for the first time flung together in a common 
national task.” The result: “In England today there are gently 
nurtured girls of the middle-class, who, thrown into the mael¬ 
strom of war, victims of unforeseen unadventured combina¬ 
tions of malign circumstance, are bringing forth their little ones 



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in shame and deadly fear.” And many of these girls do 

not even know the name of the father of their little ones. 

The similar commercialization of girls which is generalized 
in the United States under the name of self-support and econo¬ 
mic independence breeds the same licentiousness and loss of 
self-respect, although with different symptoms of evil because 
of the difference in war and peace conditions. 

The rigid enforcement of the laws that keep the young 
people from meeting in secluded places, the protective laws of 
women-workers and the limited means of young men (insuffi¬ 
cient to maintain independent abodes) prevent, to a great ex¬ 
tent, sexual intercourse, but give enough leave to grown-up 
girls to get used to the other bifurcated creature. The society 
girl “learns” him at her parties and sport meetings,—the 
middle-class girl at the office and cabaret,—the workman’s 
daughter at the shops and factories. 

What this association means is clearly indicated in the 
many letters that appeared in the “What do you think” column 
of the former Evening Sun. There you read the complaint of 
girls who are kept at home, and want to meet “nice fellows” 
and have a “good time,”—of others testifying that “to be 
popular with men” a girl has to be “a good fellow,”—that men 
do not want to take out a “prude.” One of the correspondents 
of this column, who signed G. R. D., laid the whole situation 
bare in these typical words: 

“Now as to the request of ‘Smiles’ that some men give 
their opinions on the matter of the ‘kiss me or you are out of 
luck’ sort of chap that seems to predominate to-day, I am very 
sorry to admit that the average chap is of that type. He is, in 
a way, forced to resort to this, he imagining to get an equivalent 
for the money he spends on entertaining the girl. Hence un¬ 
less he is rewarded by a girl with her kisses he decides that she 
is a ‘flat tire’ and seeks the company of other girls.” 

The acute social illness from commercialization of girlhood 
in war times brought about the catastrophic fall of many an 



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English girl, but with the redeeming feature of motherhood. 
The chronic social illness from commercialization of the girl 
in peace time brings about a blunt and vicious degradation of 
girlhood, and gives the reason for the lack of sanctity of the 
present day marriage. 

The girls rooted out of the home and craving for excitement 
commercialize their caresses and kisses for entertainment, be¬ 
coming what the old French called “filles folles de leur corps” 
—girls foolish with their body. The girl evolves into the sense¬ 
less “chicken” and the young man, used to the merchandising of 
the girl’s body, feels cheated if the girl shuns his lust. 

Belonging to everybody that pays the dinner check, the girl 
conceives marriage as the renting of herself (as a contract say 
WOMEN writers) for board, dress and room, with child¬ 
bearing as an accident. It is for her a new kind of a job, and 
the “chap” cloyed with contempt for the venality of the girl 
looks at the marriage institution as a bargain. 

The principles of commercialization of the woman were 
clearly expressed by Miss Madeline Z. Doty, in a statement 
that Miss Margery Rex incorporated in an article published by 
the New York Evening Journal on November 6th, 1920. 

Miss Doty said: “First of all ‘Feminism’ means a wide 
economic independence for women. The problem before the 
women is how to reconcile this to home life. I believe in the 
institution of the home.” 

And Miss Doty reconciles economic independence of the 
women and home life by making the husband pay his wife for 
housekeeping and motherhood. 

About housekeeping, she says: “Therefore housework 
ought to have an economic value. Let people pay well for 
homekeeping instead of setting it aside with sentimental ex¬ 
cuses for its neglect.” 

About motherhood, she says: “Now we come to the most 
important of all work—motherhood. Particularly should that 


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be recognized as an important responsibility. Men don’t. They 
say they do. Perhaps they recognize it sentimentally. Oh, of 
course—that’s woman’s sphere—as the mother’s, they say. But 
would they pay her for her cares and services to the future of 
the race ? Indeed, no!” 

Miss Doty’s “wide economic independence” for women has 
been practiced for centuries by different classes of women: 

1. —The woman of the street to whom her “transient hus¬ 
bands” pay wages for her “welcome.” 

2. —The concubine,—housekeeper for the outsider, mistress 
to her middle aged employer who pays her for her work and 
the rest. 

3. —The girl-mother,—who has been foolish with a man, 
unwilling or unable to give her the dignity of wife,—and who 
receives from him alimony or a settlement. 

These are women economically independent. 

If marriage were a contract,—the lease of a woman’s body 
for a man’s money,—she should be paid like one does a pro¬ 
stitute,—sentimental excuses for not doing so would have no 
value. 

Economically, Miss Doty’s conception of the “job” of 
marriage, would double the cost of living and make of the 
woman a saleable luxury obtainable only by the wealthy,—a 
white slave in “business for herself.” 

But marriage, in spite of all conventionalities, is only the 
civil consecration of mating,—and mating makes of husband 
and wife a unit,—a unit indissoluble by nature’s decree,—a 
unit of which the members have different functions for the 
common welfare, and not different jobs for general exploita¬ 
tion and benefit. 

Artificial laws create a fictitious state of marriage, hence 
the condition of wedded people conflicts with their nature and 
with social life. Trying to correct the evils of such a social 
order, faddists build their reforms upon the fallacies of the 


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laws and add a few renewed devices and tricks to a mechanism 
already defective. They add to its clumsiness and impractic¬ 
ability, until its collapse and discard will let people return to 
nature and normal order. 

When commercialized young people feel the sexual appeal, 
or as they say, “fall in love,” they get married, not to fulfill 
the natural laws of their being,—to become a unit and raise 
children,—but just to comply with the laws and regulations 
which govern sexual intercourse. These girls crave for man, 
but are afraid of bearing children. The maternal instinct has 
been dulled, leaving only awake a sexual desire, perverted be¬ 
cause its ends are forgotten. 

Mating is no longer regarded by the law as the appropriation 
of the maiden by a man, but as a venal contract,—the renting 
of a woman with attending financial compensation in case of 
cancellation. Civil marriage has become but the granting of 
a license to fornicate. Hence, young people and matrons marry 
because of sexual fancy, divorce or simply separate when 
the fancy is over, and start some new romance, getting for 
two more dollars, a new license to cohabit with some other 
“chap” or “flapper.” 

The feminist principle of “woman’s economic indepen¬ 
dence,” which is the caption for commercialization of the girl, 
—and “common standard of morals for both sexes” are at the 
bottom of the divorce evil. In spite of their educational handi¬ 
cap for family life, most of the women who ask separation or 
divorce would keep on living with their husbands and by the 
fulfillment of their duties secure happiness if no divorce laws 
allowed them to change husbands when they so fancy. By the 
so-called protective laws for wives, women have lost confidence 
in men, and men look at women as selfish and mean opponents. 

Feminists themselves are obliged to recognize that family 
life and consequently the perpetuation of the race are endan¬ 
gered in the United States, so Miss Wolfson, a pioneer suf¬ 
fragist says: “Family life in this country will disintegrate if 


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something isn’t done immediately to encourage marriage and 
stimulate the birth rate.” 

But instead of trying to correct the conditions which cause 
the disintegration of the family—which disintegration was 
imposed by feminist propaganda and legislation—Miss Wolf son, 
with the intolerable propensity of the women to meddle in 
other peoples’ affairs, proposes to remedy this situation 
by a new artifical trick: The creation of a Federal Bureau 
of Matrimony. 

“Of course such a bureau as we propose,” Miss Wolfson 
says, “should be run by experts who have human sympathies as 
well as a knowledge of eugenics. If a department of public 
welfare is created, it would just be the place for our matri¬ 
monial bureau. We are asking eugenists, economists and others 
for ideas so that we may embody the best of them in the bill 
we propose to introduce.” (New York Evening Journal, Nov¬ 
ember 8, 1920.) 

In a previous statement on, the same subject, (New York 
American, August 22, 1920) Miss Wolfson said: “A Govern¬ 
ment matrimonial bureau as we plan it would promote eugenic 
matings, but would be conducted in such a manner as to en¬ 
courage romance. It can be done if the right sort of persons 
are selected to run it. At the head of it should be a woman 
of experience and wisdom, who is human enough to understand 
the problems of young people.” 

You and I may think that Father and Mother constitute 
for any Daughter the best matrimonial bureau in the world,— 
but you see, we are not up to date. 

The intensive feminist propaganda for “independence of 
women” and “self-support” by the Administration, the schools 
and the newspapers, has brought about some startling facts, 
although not entirely unexpected, such as, for instance, the 
report given out December 15, 1919, by the Travelers’ Aid 
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This report says that approximately 68,000 girls dis¬ 
appeared or “ran away” from home in the United States during 
the past year. 

A question that Miss Fay Stevenson of the Evening World 
asked Miss Virginia Murray, Executive Secretary for the 
Traveler’s Aid Society, brought the reply: “So many girls 
seem to be dissatisfied with their home life, their positions and 
the lack of excitement. Many of these girls are girls who did 
war work and are not content to settle down to a quiet life 
again.” And as Herbert Corey said in the “Globe,” on Febru¬ 
ary, 1920:—“Most of the girls who leave home in Pennsylvania 
are daughters of foreign born families. The girls have been 
Americanized.” 

Mr. Corey certainly uses here thq word Americanized in 
the wrong sense, for it cannot mean that Americanization is 
training of such a nature as to pull girls out of their homes and 
away from their families and guardians, to deliver them to un¬ 
qualified and often malevolent strangers. It is not American¬ 
ization that brings forth such results, but commercialization 
of the girl. 

Independence of the woman is often spoken of as a char¬ 
acteristic of American life by people who have never left the 
United States and are ignorant of conditions in foreign coun¬ 
tries. Such independence is not peculiar to Northern America. 
The same independence exists among CERTAIN CLASSES 
of women in all commercial and industrial centers all over 
Europe,—that is to say amongst the merchandised womanhood 
of all countries. If there is something especial to America in 
this case it is only that here the constituted authorities give rec¬ 
ognition to that type of lowered womanhood and endeavor to 
impose such a standard on the entire girlhood of the country. 
Hence the difference is that abnormal womanhood in foreign 
countries is but a local and restricted phenomenon resulting 
from social conditions and leaving woman’s nature free to 
return to sane living, while abnormal womanhood is here a 


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result of deliberate training, impeding the woman in her natural 
course of life. 

Herbert Corey in the same article states: “The girls of 
Connecticut who leave home are, in large majority, mill-hands. 
They have been put at work too early by their parents.” 

Why do girls leave home? It is because they do not like 
the place, because they are not at liberty under the watchful¬ 
ness of their parents to deport themselves as the factory chaps 
incite them to; because they have not been trained to make a 
home homelike, because commercialization of their girlhood 
has made life a dull drudgery which, with the heedlessness of 
their feminine nature, they seek to escape by changing their 
surroundings, risking the future of their lives in a moment of 
depression. 

Public institutions, under the pressure of feminism, under¬ 
mine the legitimate authority, protection and responsibility of 
the parents. Discipline replaces respect and conscience, and 
discipline is symbolized by the policeman on the corner, whom 
the child is taught to invoke against its. father or mother when 
the latter refuses to give way to their uncontrolled or vicious 
impulses. 

Of these thousands of girls who are missing or who ran 
away, how many are “lost,” there are no available statistics to 
show, but we may listen to Miss Maude E. Minner, head of 
Waverley House, who said: “The girlhood of New York is 
not safe. Daughters of the poor particularly are preyed upon 
by men who daily send them into lives of immorality.” 

Why is it that the daughter of the poor is particularly 
endangered? Is it not because she is obliged by economic 
conditions to practice feminist theories, with which all girls 
are sophisticated, but which are less nocuous when counter¬ 
balanced by home influence ? Is it not because these girls and 
young women are “freed through the shops and factories?” Is 
it not because they lack to a greater extent the protection and 
support of the family? Is it not because these girls are in 


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some way deprived of their natural protectors and thrown, 
isolated, on the mercy of strangers of doubtful character? 

But feminism after having expelled the girl from her home 
is not yet satisfied, and begins the second part of its task. 
This is to herd the flock of girls toward its clubs, societies, 
protectories and reformatories. 

Women are particularly keen in these matters and one in¬ 
stance will sufficiently illustrate the tendency. Judge Wad- 
hams in General Sessions had reversed the conviction of a girl 
because there were indications that the police had unlawfully 
entrapped her. A man, a judge, is for fair play,* but Magistrate 
Jean Norris approved the conviction of the girl, and believed 
“if reversals of convictions in the Woman’s court continue the 
hands of the police will be tied and the city will return to a 
state of unlimited immorality,” for “since Judge Wadhams on 
February 5, 1920, reversed this decision cases have fallen off 
enormously.” 

Magistrate Jean Norris sees but one thing: “cases have 
fallen off enormously.” She fails to realize that if convictions 
can be obtained against girls by police traps, girls are deprived 
of their constitutional guaranties of personal liberty,—that no 
girl would be safe against the enterprises of those who are com¬ 
missioned to safeguard them. 

Magistrate Jean Norris would have sent that girl to some 
“Reformatory,” such as for instance the State Reformatory 
for Women at Bedford, of which the board of managers (with 
several women), in its annual report (1919) forwarded to the 
legislature recommends: “that a sound-proof room be provided 
in the hospital building, so that hysterical inmates might be 
locked in where they can make all the noise they please without 
disturbing the orderly women.” 

Can any man or woman imagine that the protection of 
social order against petty larceny of silk underwear or the 
punishment of a sexual offense calls for such a treatment of 
reformation that human beings, girls and women, are wrecked 


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in mind and body, and require their seclusion in a sound proof 
room? The reformatory being, at the time, managed by wo¬ 
men, is not this demand a testimony that women lack person¬ 
ality and authority over their own sex? If prison or reforma¬ 
tory officials and employees are unable to gain the respect of 
their wards by moral suasion, they are unfit for their positions. 

Another instance of the inconsistency and malignity of 
feminism is found in the contentions at Albany concerning 
the bills on woman-labor, which are intended to protect the 
health, womanhood and morality of the women-workers. 

The supporters of these measures are right, as is proven by 
the disastrous results of woman-labor in England, and, in a 
less apparent, but not less serious proportion, in the United 
States. On the other hand, the opponents of these bills are 
right too, for the laws for the protection of women-workers 
limit the employment of woman-labor,—impose upon the 
women restrictions which decrease the value or efficiency of 
their services. These limitations and restrictions consequently 
lower the wages of the women and curtail their opportunities. 

Both sides are right from their narrow-minded view-points, 
but both are wrong from ethical and sociological view-points 
The woman is not made for public life and therefore she needs 
special artificial protection to take up work, harmless to man, 
but detrimental to woman’s natural faculties. This protection 
hampers her efficiency as a worker and hence affects her com¬ 
mercial value. Protective laws for women-workers are not 
altogether good for the woman, fot public work injures the 
woman as a woman and protective laws inconvenience her as 
a worker. The very simple and natural reason for this is that 
the woman is being used contrary to her natural laws. 

In spite of overwhelming evidence that woman is not fitted 
for public life and work outside of the home, women-writers 
in the New York newspapers indulge especially in luring the 
girl into business by articles titled as follows: “What shall the 
girl do to earn a living?’’—“What kind of a job does your 


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daughter think she wants ?”—“Says all women should have a 
job.—Work with your hands, women are admonished by a 
woman licensed engineer.—Antoinette Vonasek shovels two 
tons of coal a day into the boilers of a Bronx school and is 
qualified to tell of the benefits to her sex of real labor.” 

All methods of degrading the woman by commercialization 
of her soul and body are welcome to the Feminist adept,— 
and educated girls seem to be particularly eager for abase¬ 
ment. 

So we hear that undergraduates of a certain college for 
girls hire out as cooks, parlor-maids and the like, to raise funds 
for this institution. And to swell another fund, we are invited 
to see society girls giving a regular musical revue in a regular 
theatre. In times past, girls had some respect for themselves. 
Well bred girls gave interpretations of dramas and comedies 
of high grade, in which the aim was “art,” but now they 
devote themselves to the lowest of plays,—the musical comedy, 
which is merely an appeal to the senses. What next, if not 
white-slavery for charity purposes? 

Make the girl independent of man, even if you must ruin 
her life to do it, is the feminist aim. And so they degrade the 
girl from her station of woman to that of a business trained 
automaton. The business girl is either the empty-headed 
“flapper” who craves for a dance or a theatre party, or the 
she-shaped “neutral being” who spends her life and energies in 
in the sublime accomplishment of becoming “the head of her 
department.” 

The first is a failure in life as well as in business. The 
second lives a life of undeveloped individuality, although she 
may succeed in business to a certain extent. The first fails 
because she is too frail mentally and physically for wifehood 
and motherhood; the latter fails in life because after ten years 
wasted in money-making purposes, her adaptability to married 
life is greatly reduced, and child-bearing has become for her 
more painful and dangerous than for the women having had 


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children at an earlier age. She has lost the attractiveness, the 
charms and the sensitivenes of youth which man rightly desires 
in his wife. She is a past-season bargain. 

One scribbling lady finds the war has taught woman that 
she can carry on two jobs at the same time,—one in business 
and one in home-making. And she asserts that a sales-woman 
who has been on a three months’ business trip will find her 
home in perfect order, just as the woman who has been over 
there doing war work. While she is selling farm implements 
a few hundred miles away her home will manage itself and 
her husband will be patiently awaiting her return from her 
lofty mission of canvassing. Really, there are times when 
feminism becomes an aggravating silliness. 

Our business girls, even if their organism were not im¬ 
paired, cannot be business-women and home-makers at the 
same time, and if a business man marries a business woman, 
they are just two bored people meeting at night. 

In an article published by the Tribune, on January 18, 1920, 
Miss Hannah Mitchell relates a conversation with Mrs. John J. 
Morehead, who was recalling some personal experiences. “My 
husband went overseas in the service,” said Mrs. Morehead, 
“and I took my little daughter to Washington to live. I went 
into one of the Red Cross offices and for the first time in my 
life settled down to regular office routine. At first I tried to 
run an apartment, getting up early enough to get breakfast and 
to do some of the straightening up before I went to work. At 
noon I often went home and got lunch. And then in the even¬ 
ing I cooked dinner. I say this is what I tried to do and I 
found I simply could not do it. I had to have a “WIFE/ ” 

“A wife,” said Miss Mitchell, in the same article 
“should be some one restful and quiet and pleasant to look at.” 
How could you expect a tired business-woman to be a wife, 
restful and quiet, and pleasant to look at, after a long day full 
of petty annoyances and worries? How could you expect a 


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girl to be restful and quiet if she has exhausted her nervous 
resources by years of fruitless brain-racking? 

The weakening of the woman’s brain is not found in this 
instance only. So one reads that the Save-a-Life League re¬ 
ceived reports of 6,161 suicides in the United States for the 
year 1920. Male suicides were 3,567,—female 2,604. Of these 
223 were committed by boys averaging 15 years of age and 
484 by girls averaging 16 years of age, a total of 707 children 
suicides. 

In the year 1919, Dr. H. M. Warren, president of the Save- 
a-Life League, reported 5,121 suicides of which 3,212 were 
committed by men and 1,909 committed by women. Children 
suicides numbered 477, of which 225 were boys and 252 were 
girls. 

The percentage of women and girl suicides has thus in¬ 
creased as follows in one year: 

1919 1920 

Men 3,212 or 66 per cent of total; 3,567 or 58 per cent. 

Woman 1,909 or 34 per cent of total; 2,604 or 42 per cent. 

Of which: 

Boys 225 or 47 per cent. 223 or 32 per cent. 

Girls 252 or 53 per cent. 484 or 68 per cent. 

Children 477 707 

In one year women suicides have increased by 695 cases, or 
about 28 per cent, while 1 men suicides increased only by 355 
cases, or about 9.6 per cent. 

Children suicides show an increase of 50 per cent over last 
year. 

Dr. Warren, who is doing such fine work in the prevention 
of suicide, thinks that “Prohibition, politics, divorces and the 
extension of women’s activities are some of the causes of a 
world-wide increase in suicides.” 


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Others find an explanation in the complexity of the prob¬ 
lems that confront the woman today, and Dr. Copeland as¬ 
serts it to be due to the high cost of living. 

Such conclusions seem somewhat superficial, for what is 
generally given as the reason for suicide is merely the occasion 
for such an act. 

The instinct of self-preservation is all-powerful in the 
normal being, so that even the greatest blows, such as the death 
of ! a beloved relative, or the loss of a fortune, very seldom 
lead to the suicide of a human being in a normal condition of 
health, because there is a natural reaction which follows the 
physical depression that attends the misfortune,—and it is not 
because the price of eggs, butter and shoes has gone up that 
people kill themselves. 

People who commit suicide are in a state of despondency,— 
they have lost spirit. This mental deficiency is always 
accompanied by gradual exhaustion of the nervous force, so 
that the natural reactions of self-preservation find but an im¬ 
perfect instrument of transmission. The final cause of suicide 
must be sought in what exhausted the cerebral matter. 

Malnutrition, mental and physical over-exertion, loneliness, 
worries and vices, if habitual, affect the brain greatly, draining 
away the nervous vitality. In the brain thus progressively 
weakened and unresponsive to the call of self-preservation, a 
vexation or a trifling disappointment, often not connected with 
the cause of exhaustion, may bring about the fatal denouement. 

The impoverishment of the brain does not necessarily lead 
to suicide, so that suicide does not constitute a particular case 
by itself, but is one of a set of facts which have to be considered 
together as a whole. 

From the same source of nervous misery come the exces¬ 
sive use of coffee and tea, the abuse of tobacco and alcoholic 
drinks, the craving for excitement and entertainment and the 
addiction to drugs such as opium, cocain and heroin. 

Suicidal impulses which simply try to satisfy an intense 


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need of mental and physical rest, are idiosyncratic symptoms 
of the same illness. They are artificial escapes from the same 
state of depression. 

Thus to understand the extent and the gravity of the mat¬ 
ter, not only has the number of suicides to be taken into account, 
but also all statistics relating to these different expressions of 
degeneracy, and one will find that a great majority of the 
people are wanting in normal health. 

Nevertheless, statistical data on suicide offer probatory in¬ 
formation, such as: 

1. —The number of suicides of women is increasing, showing 
thus that cerebral misery is spreading and becoming aggravated 
among the womanhood of the country* 

2. —There is an alarming number of children suicides, and 
although the total number of girls under 21 years of age in this 
country is somewhat smaller than the number of boys, there 
were in 1920, 484 girl suicides as against 223 boy suicides, or 
more than twice the number of boy suicides and 68 per cent 
of the total number. In 1919 there were 252 girl suicides, as 
against 225 boy suicides. 

In one year girl suicides have increased by 232 cases or 
about 90 per cent, while boy-suicides remained virtually un¬ 
changed, the number reported having decreased by 2. 

This is significant. Children of both sexes being under 
the same strain, it means that the feminine constitution is 
without the slightest doubt more affectable than man's con¬ 
stitution, and that it is a mistake to support a supposed equality 
of sexes. 

This means further that cerebral misery is forced upon the 
young girl of the country, and that although its immediate 
results may not be suicide or vice, it paves the way for a 
degenerate womanhood. 

More than that, it presages that if our professional fem¬ 
inists succeed in their aim of generalizing the commercializa¬ 
tion of the woman, there will be an ever increasing proportion 


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of women-suicides, criminals and degenerates over men in these 
classes. It implies, besides, that the health and mental standards 
of coming generations will constantly decrease until the utter 
waning out of the present American people will naturally result. 

The WOMEN in asking for the vote, based their claim on 
the need for cleaner politics, and, in order to have the suffrage 
amendment passed, they made a card-index of congressmen 
and politicians, and black-mailed them for their votes. This 
is what is called cleaner politics. 

After the vote was obtained, the WOMEN joined en masse 
the existing parties, worked themselves into the committees of 
the political machines and raced for titles and offices,—develop¬ 
ing into the most useless and noxious beings: petty politicians. 

And a certain judge knew what petty politicians they are, 
when he dared to tell them at a meeting at the Hotel Astor: 
“We need you women because you are more able than men to 
find out the political opinion of your neighbors, and what our 
opponents are intending to do.” And that man proposed to 
appoint block-captains to whom to report the findings. 

A clearer example of absence of ethics never has been so 
naively expressed, nor an insult received with more candor, 
for the WOMEN listened to His Honor with great interest! 

The WOMEN decided at the last suffrage Convention, held 
in Chicago, in February, 1920, to join the existing political 
parties, but to maintain a woman's organization under the 
name of the “League of Women Voters.” This, Miss G. Kil- 
breah, President of the National Association, opposed to Woman 
Suffrage, characterized in a letter to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 
President of the International Women’s Suffrage League, 
as a “fake organization so far as actual voting strength is con¬ 
cerned, created by suffragists to serve as a tool to terrorize 
timid politicians,” and as “a scarecrow, a league of straw 
voters, not representing 10 per cent even of the women who 
have the ballot, much less all the women of the Nation.” 


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That the aim of the suffrage-women is only to get political 
jobs and add to the already too great number of sinecure 
holders, does not need to be emphasized to those who observe 
in the daily papers the desperate struggles of THE WOMEN 
for political and official positions. 

The real motive of politicians for urging the ratification of 
the suffrage amendment by the states was given plainly by 
William Jennings Bryan, several times the unsuccessful can¬ 
didate for the Presidency of the United States, who said: “I 
am particularly anxious that the DEMOCRATIC STATES 
shall act promptly and favorably: First,—In order that the 
Democratic Party may be able to make a successful appeal to 
women voters; Second,—Because we need the conscience of 
women to aid the moral causes to which democracy is pledged.” 

Womanhood is of no importance to politicians, whose first, 
and often only aim, is to get votes. 

There are very few political men of the type of Senator 
Wadsworth, on the Republican side, and James R. Nugent, 
New Jersey Democratic leader, who place their conscience and 
convictions above political motives, proving thus that they have 
nothing to fear from the women’s card index. 

Mr. Nugent, answering a plea from Homer S. Cummings, 
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in favor of 
woman suffrage, wrote: “Let us not for EXPEDIENCY’S 
SAKE inflict suffrage upon the women of New Jersey, the 
majority of whom, I am convinced, are opposed to “votes for 
women.” 

“Moreover, it means the driving of the women into direct 
competition with man in every field of human endeavor and 
you should know that the natural law of the survival of the 
fittest is still immutable. It means the loosening of the marriage 
ties, a diminishing of the birth-rate and a breaking up of the 
American Home. It means the projection of woman into the 
hurly-burly and turmoil of politics, and politics, as you and 
I know, is constant warfare, in which men only should engage. 


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“You ask me therefore to ally myself with a national policy 
committing the Democratic party to a complete surrender of the 
manhood of the nation to petticoat control for POLITICAL 
EMERGENCY'S SAKE. Believe me, I hold myself to be 
too much of a man to do this.” 

President Harding, then Senator and Republican nomi¬ 
nee for the Presidency, in a speech at Marion praised the 
women, and announced his intention of creating a new Wel¬ 
fare Department. He declared also his faith in the entrusting 
of important welfare work to women. 

At once the WOMEN understood this promise as the 
pandering to them of the womanhood and girlhood of the 
country, and they started immediately to select the new Secre¬ 
tary. 

Governor Cox, Democratic nominee, one or two days later, 
announced that if he was elected he would call a convention of 
women to propose laws affecting women and children. 

Considering the trend of opinion of the “WOMEN 
LEADERS,” it is not hard to tell the kind of laws such a 
welfare department or convention would advocate. 

With Mrs. Gilman, they would compel the woman to do 
work outside of the home, and give to strangers the care of 
your children. 

With Miss Alice Paul, they would take away from the 
father his exclusive control over his children,—deprive him of 
the right of selecting their careers, of choosing their schools 
and otherwise disposing of them as he sees fit. The State, that 
is to say the woman at the head of the Welfare Department 
and the multiple committees of the Women’s Convention, would 
assume entire responsibility for the maintenance and education 
of children until they become of age. 

With Mrs. Mary G. Simkovitch, they would free the foreign 
born woman by opening to her the doors' of factories, shops 
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With Mrs. Frederick Schoffs, they would make of the 
foreign born man an American to the extent of sending his 
wife to club meetings. 

With Miss Wolf son, they would have your boys and girls 
obtain authorization to marry from some lady-official, head of 
a matrimonial bureau in Washington, a lady-official whose 
authority would supersede yours, and to whom you would have 
to expose your private affairs as the reason for your opposition. 

With Miss Doty, they would make of your wife a paid ser¬ 
vant, and of the mother of your children, a woman “in the 
child-bearing business.” This would create a new standard of 
relations between husband and wife, and offer ground to other 
faddists to deprive a husband of his wife when he is unable 
to pay her wages either as houseworker or mother. New 
grounds for divorce and immorality. 

And with the lady birth-controllers and eugenists in au¬ 
thority one might expect the appointment of women inspectors 
of eugenics, who would have power to prohibit a* man from 
procreating children, and would have him sent to prison, and 
his wife to the operating table, if he transgressed their orders. 

Do these ladies truly believe that wives and children in the 
United States do belong no more to their husbands and fathers, 
but are just toys and tools in the hands of Misses and Mis¬ 
tresses who choose to stray into politics ? One may ask what 
has become of the manhood of the country if the nonsensical 
principles of the WOMEN are written into laws. 

The news that Secretary of State Colby had signed on 
August 26th, 1920, the proclamation announcing the adoption 
of the woman suffrage amendment was received with absolute 
indifference by the great mass of women in the United States, 
—and an investigation made by the New York Evening World 
among many business women, who, it was presumed, would 
have expressed enthusiastic approval, showed only apathy and 
antagonism. 

This redeeming feature testifies to the saneness of the 


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womanhood of this country in comparison with the suffragist 
craze of New England and New York. 

And one may wonder if the peculiarity of the brain of the 
Anglo-Saxon woman, who predominates in New England and 
New York, does not account for the spreading of feminism in 
these parts of the country. 

In the smallness of the brain of the Anglo-Saxon woman 
can be seen the origin of her love for the inunderstandable, the 
mysterious, the uncanny, the supernatural; her propensity for 
eccentricity and oddness; her fondness for meaningless 
puzzles and so-called secret orders and societies. 

Numerous instances of such freakishness of mind constant¬ 
ly appear in the daily papers, and a few facts lately published 
will sufficiently exemplify this hypothesis, such as mothers 
offering their young children or unborn child for sale,—a 
woman willing to sell her “sour’ for 48 hours for 2,500 dol¬ 
lars,—a lady of Rockland offering her husband for sale, by 
lottery or auction in order to save her SEVEN children from 
misery, and receiving from numerous women inquiries for 
particulars and even money, paying for chances! Stupid bets 
of all kinds, like that of that young athletic girl of Portland 
who dived forty feet from Portland Bridge and swam in the 
icy water for twenty-three minutes before rescued. 

The woman-picket and the Miss Harley who wanted women 
to wear trousers are daughters of the same queerness. 

The flourishing of new religions, of Spiritualism and 
of Communication with the dead, also bring in their evi¬ 
dence on the same subject. Marriages celebrated in bathing 
suits, on horse-back, in airplanes, in overalls, in seaplanes, on 
mountain-peaks are other insanities coming from the same 
source. 

The nonsensical opinions on the most varied subjects, which 
the newspapers publish daily with grotesque seriousness, need 
not be reprinted here. Just open today’s newspaper and read. 
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calls more urgently for the attention of the psychiatrist than for 
the right to vote. The women of plain good sense go ahead 
undisturbed by the present day turmoil of instanity. They 
love, obey and respect their husbands, whom they consider well 
fit to represent the family’s interests in public life. 

They did not ask for the vote to protect the home against 
their husbands. THEY PROTECT THE HOME BY STAY¬ 
ING IN IT, which is the only way to do, but they will have 
to USE THE VOTE NOW TO PROTECT THEIR 
HOMES AGAINST THE WOMEN who pretend to be 
their leaders. 

So our “WOMEN LEADERS,” after the last geyeral 
elections, discovered that if they were leading, the ordinary 
woman simply did not follow, as complaints of leaders pub¬ 
lished by the New York World on November 4, 1920, show: 

“Mrs. George Bass, Chairman of the Women’s Bureau of 
the National Democratic Committee, said flatly she was dis¬ 
appointed in the women. It was quite evident that the 

women had obeyed the call for a selfish isolation and by their 
votes had returned Moses, Brandegee, Wadsworth and Pen¬ 
rose—all irreconcilable bitter-enders to the Senate.” 

“Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, Republican National Chair¬ 
man of the Department of the East, in her rejoicing over the 
Republican victory, laid the blame for the small vote of the 
State at the door of the women voters and their implied prefer¬ 
ence for Governor Smith over Judge Miller. She said the 
women had not realized their political responsibility, and the 
fact that it would be of no use to elect a Democratic Governor 
and a Republican Legislature.” 

Another woman-leader contented herself in the lesser 
defeat she suffered. Miss Mary Garrett Hay, who led the 
assault on Wadsworth, and her fellow-workers, glorified in 
the decreased majorities “which stood as a monument to the 
efforts of the women.” 

Miss Harriet May Mills, democratic nominee for Secre- 



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tary of State, had made the following modest declaration when 
she was nominated: “I am running because I am fitted for the 
office and I believe I can perform the work more satisfactorily 
than a man. I was named for the Secretaryship of State by a 
conference of Democratic women. I was the unanimous choice 
of the Democratic delegates to the state convention.” 

“Miss Mills,” said the New York American, of November 
4, 1920, “was backed by the Woman Suffrage party and the 
League of Woman Voters, most of whom fought the re-election 
of United States Senator James W. Wadsworth, Jr., Mary 
Garrett Hay was one of her most pronounced champions.” 

Miss Mills was badly defeated, “while Governor Smith 
carried Manhattan by more than 100,000 plurality. Miss Mills 
lost it to Lyons (the Republican nominee) by more than 
60,000.” 

Democratic women-leaders complained that the women had 
failed them, while Republican women-leaders rejoiced over the 
Republican victory, of which they modestly claimed the honor, 
when their most strenuous efforts were decidedly defeated, 
namely by the re-election of Senator Wadsworth and by the 
failure of Miss Mills to be elected Secretary of State. 

These elections should end the dream of suffragist domina¬ 
tion and teach all timid candidates that there is no connection 
between the “WOMEN” and the “WOMANHOOD” of the 
country. The latter, attracted to the pools, have repudiated 
the former and informed them that they take no interest in their 
ambitions and petty wrangles. 

One of the great lessons of this election is that the WOMEN 
have in no way succeeded in corrupting the womanhood of the 
country. The latter enjoyed the thrill of choosing officials, and 
just followed the lead of public opinion in their condemnation 
of the last administration,—man's vote was merely duplicated 
by the woman’s ballot. Another and more important lesson to 
the husbands and fathers is that unless weak or designing men 


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help the feminists in their evil work the woman will remain 
what real men in this country want her to be. 

Whatever may be, to use Mr. Bryan’s words, “the 
moral causes to which democracy is pledged,”—these causes do 
not seem to interest in anyway the welfare and protection of 
womanhood, for we are told by Speaker Sweet of the New 
York State Assembly; “Our widow’s Pension Law has broken 
down. It will be my privilege at the coming legislative session 
to have it made beneficial and effective.” 

If Mr. Bryan’s “moral causes” are the women’s welfare 
laws, we fear these moral causes are not the most welcome to 
the working women themselves, and that the women’s con¬ 
science is not a very settled thing if we are to believe Miss Amy 
Wren, Brooklyn lawyer. She acted as attorney for hundreds of 
women who lost their positions on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit 
System, as a result of the passage of the Lockwood Transpor¬ 
tation Bill, and she may be accepted as representing the 
women-workers’ view. She said: “It is pernicious legislation, 
sponsored by a group of NEW YORK SOCIETY WOMEN 
WHO HAVE NEVER WORKED IN THEIR LIVES 
AND WHO ARE SUDDENLY SEIZED WITH THE 
UPLIFT FAD.” 

But Miss Jane Pincus, who represents the Women’s Joint 
Legislative Conference, said that the opposition to the welfare 
bills was confined “to a few unprogressive employers, a small 
group of high salaried skilled women and professional women 
and SOME LEISURE CLASS WOMEN.” 

An article published by the New York Tribume on January 
21st, 1920, tells of the complaints of women on the Civil 
Service List awaiting appointment, while numerous women, 
relatives and friends of city officials, were given positions as 
police-women. 

This is only a little example of what feminism does in city 
administration, but it may give something to think about if 
you consider how it will affect all branches of civil service of 


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the County, State and Nation, where room can always be made 
to niche all the relatives, near and distant, male and female, of 
the politicians. 

A similar case is laid bare in an article by Martin Green, 
published in the New York Evening World of January 21, 
1920. Mr. Green gives as follows, part of a statement by 
Senator King: “Many officials in the Federal service are 
faddists, cranks, uplifters, dreamers, visionaries, doctrinaries, 
failures in the practical walks of life, and finally they find 
refuge in soft berths in the departments of the Government, 
and there, protected 1 by Civil Service and life positions, they 
indulge in their fads and fancies and dreams and visions, and 
seek the EXTENSION OF THEIR POWERS AND COVET 
OPPORTUNITIES TO PROJECT THE GENERAL 
GOVERNMENT INTO THE STATES AND INTO THE 
PURELY DOMESTIC AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE.” 

Senator King may not have meant this especially for the 
innumerable WOMEN’S societies grafting at leave on all 
branches of political and social life, sharing the public cake, 
and pestering the plain man and woman, but in fact it applies 
to them most adequately. 

Numberless examples of the harmful results of feminism 
upon the woman, upon society, nation and government could 
be given, but the foregoing confessions will suffice for the 
purpose of illustrating the theoretical findings which the study 
of woman has brought forth. In every one of its manifesta¬ 
tions, feminism shows itself as an artificially created state of 
mind, replacing by legal tricks or social conventionalities the 
natural actions and reactions of human nature and their normal 
combination in social life. 

Feminism may be a new word, but is a very old thing, 
which has appeared as a cancer on all declining civilizations, 
and has progressively been cured with the infusion of new 
blood and the return to morality. 

The courtesans of Greece, the enfranchised prostitutes of 


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Rome, the ladies of the court of Louis the 15th, the Tricoteuses 
of the first French Republic, the Petroleuses of the Commune, 
the Bolshevist heroines of Russia and Hungary, our profes¬ 
sional feminists, are all daughters of the same sin,—the oblivion 
of woman’s nature. 

All of them were praised and courted by the politicians 
of their time and all proclaimed that a new womanhood had 
been born, but, a study of their deeds proves they were, and 
are, perverted products of decaying civilizations. 

Feminism is an artificial habit and a looseness of morals. 
It' results in the loss of woman’s pride. 

Why does Feminism want the woman to leave her home and 
work outside, while advocating the employment of strangers to 
perform her duties in the home? 

Why does! not Feminism want the girl to be trained for 
wifehood and motherhood, and instruct her in business only 
if she proves to be a failure as a woman ? 

Why does Feminism impose the training of girls as business 
automatons and then declare the mothers incompetent and en¬ 
trust their children to societies and committees ? 

Why does Feminism snatch away the needed and legitimate 
authority of the husband and father over his wife and children 
and subject them to isolation and to the control of so-called 
welfare leagues and protective societies? 

Why does Feminism kidnap the girl from her home, subject 
her to the immorality of the street, the office and the factory, 
and then, when the girl falls, mercilessly send her to the re¬ 
formatory? 

Why does Feminism uphold anything that is injurious to 
home and family life, and support legislation making the 
breaking up of the home the natural course? 

Why does Feminism ask for a conventional “common stan¬ 
dard of morality for both sexes” when the natural results of 
the fault produce radical changes in the woman’s body, but 
do not physically affect the man ? 


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Why does Feminism direct the woman to the thraldom of 
business life and salariat, instead of helping her toward the 
independence of the home-woman ? 

Why does Feminism persecute the independent girl who 
practices the male standard of morality? And why does Fem¬ 
inism claim for the married woman the right to the same 
standard ? 

Why does Feminism rush into the political parties and 
espouse their aims and methods, when, before suffrage was 
granted, it asked for the vote to secure cleaner politics ? 

In short why does Feminism urge the woman to “manism” 
and to the commercialization of her body, instead of demanding 
nicer femininity and more efficient womanhood? 

The answer is simple: 

It is because Feminism is an ensemble of petty trickeries 
and fallacies destined to clothe, under philosophical pretenses, 
the shortcomings and vices of a few hand fulls of well fed and 
well rested women whose husbands or fathers have provided 
them with ample incomes. It is because these WOMEN, who 
are unable to work themselves into prominence on merit, need 
to create for their own selfish purposes a class of women whose 
lives have been wrecked, a proletariat of women, whose bodies 
are abased to the state of money-making tools, whose intelli¬ 
gence is perverted with skepticism and whose mentality is 
scattered and adrift on the tide of doubt in a storm of con¬ 
flicting intuitions and teachings. 

Feminism lives upon systematic and vicious calumnies con¬ 
stantly spread against the home-life and against fathers and 
mothers, through the agencies of newspapers and protective 
societies. This has proceeded so far that one of the WOMEN 
has succeeded in finding that “IT IS THE GIRL AT HOME 
WHO NEEDS THE MOST PROTECTION.” 

Make of all girls happy wives and mothers, and Feminism 
will find support nowhere. 


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It is against the she-politician, as well as against the he- 
politician, who both feed their ambition upon woman’s blood, 
heart and soul,—it is against these WOMEN, who are backed 
by the Hidden Powers whose aim of woman slavery they 
serve,—it is against them that the man must protect the woman, 
that the husband must protect his wife, that the father must 
protect his daughter and the young man his fiancee. 

This protection can be secured by the repealing of the 
Susan B. Antony amendment, the reforming of school educa¬ 
tion, the recognition of social rights and the thorough cleansing 
of the political stables. 

It is up to the husbands and fathers to realize this program, 
—and it is up to them to preserve and uphold sensible and sane 
womanhood. 


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PART VIII. 

CONCLUSION. 

The woman being different from man in every part of her 
and being endowed with different functions, abilities and quali¬ 
ties, she has in society a different calling. 

She is a being of grace and beauty, and needs to be so, 
because it is by her attractiveness that her evolution is possible. 

She is a being of passiveness, and needs to be so, because 
her nature operates by attraction, because her accomplishments 
are improvements of her own individuality and because her 
passiveness determines her abnegation which insures her chil¬ 
dren's welfare. 

She is a being of gracility in mind and body, and needs to 
be so, because passiveness is her modality. 

She is a being of sensitiveness, and she needs to be so, 
because sensitiveness is her protective armour against aggres¬ 
siveness of man, whom her charms attract. 

She is a being of modesty and self-respect, and needs to be 
so, because these virtues represent the woman's moral value 
and guarantee her fidelity to her husband. 

She is a being of sentimentality, and she needs to be so, 
because sentiment is her most efficacious weapon in the attain¬ 
ment of her aims, in the support or redemption of her husband 
and the preservation of civilization from generation to genera¬ 
tion. 

She is a being of love, and needs to be so, because love 
is her natural calling, and because happiness can only be ob¬ 
tained by following one’s calling. 

She is a being of privacy, and needs to be so, because inter¬ 
course with strange people always lessens and generally ruins 


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her faculties of passiveness, modesty and sentimentality, which 
are fundamental in the abiding of her natural calling,—because 
she is an integral part of the family unit, the interests of 
which must be in the hands of the aggressive member. 

She is a being of exclusiveness, and needs to be so, because 
her maidenhood can be a gift to one man only,—because her 
fecundation, which is a process in the development of her in¬ 
dividuality, can be the deed of one man only and because this 
gift of herself and her fecundation make her the property of 
her mate, who acquires rights and assumes corresponding 
duties. 

She is a being of permanency, and needs to be so, because 
of her passiveness, which prohibits her from seeking another 
mate and is correlative to the instinctive repulsion of man for 
an aggressive woman,—because of her exclusiveness to which 
the man has a right,—because her children are entitled in equal 
proportion to the affection of their mother and the protective 
authority of their own father. 

Woman being thus organized for her own good and for the 
welfare of her people, her status in society must be determined 
by the requirements of her nature. 

Nature works in ignorance of evil, and has no compromise 
with it. The organism that has committed a fault against nature 
reacts through pain and trouble toward normal conditions. 

Human nature is builded according to the same principle 
in its three great elements,—body, intellect and conscience. 
When the eye is hurt by strong light, natural reaction closing 
the eyelids protects the organ and restores it to its former state. 
Mistakes and doubt hurt the intellect, which reacts by reflexion 
leading to the truth. Misdeeds hurt the conscience which re¬ 
acts through remorse and leads to reform. It is by the working 
of these reactions that human nature is preserved in relatively 
good condition, although free-will often fights nature and some¬ 
times traces physiological pathways of bad habits. 

Social order is a collective expression, customary or writ- 


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ten into laws, of individual morality. The closer the social 
order is to nature, the easier it is for the members of the 
collective body to observe its rules and follow a higher standard 
of morality. 

In a society organized in comformity with the dictates of 
nature, evil is ignored and never compromised with. It is 
a society formed for normal beings, a society where free will 
has its social correlative of liberty, where rights, not prohi¬ 
bitions, are written in the statute books. 

As nature has not provided means for compulsory morality, 
the legal locks and chains invented by communities against 
looseness of conduct are inefficient, and, as very often human 
conscience does not condemn acts that the laws forbid, violators 
take punishment as an irritating abuse of a coterie-made regu¬ 
lation. 

Just as the violator of human nature finds his punishment 
in his own fault, so the offender meets his penalty in his offense 
if the social order, a resultant of the normal working of human 
nature, is adapted for the benefit of the good. 

For instance, in natural life, if a man abandons his mate, 
he is punished for his fault by isolation, loneliness and un¬ 
comfortableness, which soon will bring him back to his duty, 
nature not having compromised with him. Why act differently 
in society, and why, when a husband abandons his wife, give 
him permission through divorce to commit some more offenses ? 
Why does the law not let him bear the burden of solitude until 
he comes back repentant and cured ? 

In natural life each member of the family concurs in the 
common welfare of the unit according to his functions and 
capacities, and shares in its resources according to his needs. 
Why not have society proclaim nature's order, and deprive of 
family advantages the member who casts himself out of the 
fundamental social unit? 

As public rights, or rights in the determination of the 
destinies of the nation, are derived from participation in the 


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perpetuation of the race, why confer rights of representation 
upon one who no longer represents any social unit and en¬ 
dangers the common welfare ? 

If a wife casts herself out of the family unit, why give her 
legal authorization to do so? Why not let the penance of her 
state work out her redemption ? 

In an artifically made social order, is it not because the 
law is making comfortable the wilful violator of the natural 
laws that people make a business or an entertainment of 
outlawry ? 

Society must be organized for the welfare of normal people, 
and whoever transgresses his natural law makes himself an 
outlaw, upon whom no arbitrary punishment must be visited, 
but who by his very action deprives himself of the advan¬ 
tages of civilized society and pays for his misdemeanor by 
the hardship which it causes him to return to his normal status. 

To regulate outlawry, to make it enjoyable and easy, is to 
give privileges to the guilty and offer a premium to evil. 

By regulating divorce, the law endorses a social crime. The 
laws that regulate divorce in the United States are of the 
same nature as the laws that regulate prostitution in foreign 
countries. They legalize outlawry. They give rules for social 
disorder and corruption. They are ethically similar to those 
that would give directions forj theft, murder or rape. They 
tell how an offense must be committed in order to avoid its 
punitive and redeeming consequences. They are immoral laws. 

Because the woman possesses peculiar organs for the ac¬ 
complishment of a special natural function, the perpetuation of 
the race, toward which the whole arrangement of her being is 
directed,—and the realization of which is the fundamental ele¬ 
ment of her happiness,—social order in its dealings with the 
woman, must: First, respect the woman as a woman; second, 
protect the woman as a woman; third, facilitate the woman's 
abiding by her natural calling and help her in the realization 
of her woman's career. 


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Social order must respect woman’s nature throughout her 
evolution. Little girls need versatile and unconstrained child¬ 
ish activities with periods of rest scheduled only by the appeals 
of their organism. They must be only factories of rich blood 
which they must be allowed to store for the building of their 
femininity. 

As maidenhood is a preparatory state to effective woman¬ 
hood, girls need to be prepared for their natural state in human 
society. So the young girl’s physiological functions should be 
preserved for further development. She needs an unexhausted 
supply of nervous force to meet the requirements of wifehood 
and avoid physiological misery and collapse when her calling 
makes itself felt. 

She needs sensitiveness and modesty. She needs the 
knowledge of the sciences and the practice of the arts belong¬ 
ing to her natural functions. 

Women need wifehood and motherhood, with all the facili¬ 
ties that these states require. Among these are private homes 
and decent support, which presuppose the right of man to 
earn a reasonable living for himself, wife and children by 
a reasonable day’s work. They need the protection of their 
husband and the love and respect of their children. 

These, and all other needs of woman’s nature, must be 
respected by the law and recognized as rights. 

The law must protect the woman as a woman; thus protect 
the woman physically as a maiden, in school as well as in the 
factory, against girl-labor that endangers or hampers her nor¬ 
mal development. The law must protect the maiden morally 
against conditions that make her lose her modesty. The law 
must protect the maiden mentally against teachings opposed 
to the calling of her nature. 

Social order must protect the woman as a wife, and must 
protect her, not against her husband, but against actual of¬ 
fences of her husband, by holding him responsible for his 
duties, even when he breaks his laws. This can be accomplished 


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by depriving him of a husband’s rights for the time his dere¬ 
liction lasts. 

Social order must protect the woman as a mother, by 
recognizing her inalienable possession of her daughters and 
infant boys, against the claims of societies or committees 
that try to usurp her privileges. The parents are by nature 
the probation officers from whose authority the child can be 
taken away only by a violation of human rights. 

Social order must facilitate the woman’s loyalty to her 
natural calling and help the realization of her woman’s career. 

Social order through the school can facilitate the evolution 
of the girl toward higher womanhood by applying methodically 
the pupil’s intellectual faculties to her feminine nature and ac¬ 
tivities. 

Social order can facilitate the abiding by the woman of her 
calling by protecting the interests of the great mass of adult 
men, who now are unable to mate with maidens, that schools 
and commercialization have unfitted for domestic economy. 
It is as much the duty of organized society to protect man’s 
work and productive activity against “business” as it is 
society’s duty to help the woman in her training for 
WOMAN’S LIFE. 

It is a duty of the social order, on default or ineffective¬ 
ness of the husband, to help the mother and prospective 
mother, not by charity, but as a social function of co-operation. 

Such are the main lines of social order based on the nature 
of THE WOMAN. 

Human nature is the foundation of human society, and 
a society that has recourse to trick-legislation to institute a 
make-believe social order is a failure. WOMEN may pro¬ 
claim principles and theories of new womanhood, but their 
efforts to make of the WOMAN what she is not, are futile, as 
they have been since history and legend have recorded the 
decay of civilizations. Feminism in its various forms is as 


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old as perverted womanhood. It appears with the loosening of 
morality as a process of elimination of evil by the sterilization 
of decadent countries. 

In this country, whose population is a composite of old 
and new races, feminism is eliminating the Anglo-Saxon stems 
of New England and New York. It clothes its symptoms in 
Anglo-Saxons modes of mind. Looseness of morals is assumed 
to be “respectable” under the mockery of the marriage license, 
and commercialization of womanhood is labeled “economic 
independence.” 

The salvation of the United States lays in its various races, 
in the relative youth of its north-western European stock, in 
its Celtic population from Ireland, in its raw products from 
Poland and Russia, in the influx of rejuvenated elements of 
Latinity. 

These people just get married and procreate children, be¬ 
cause they are young races, the races of the future; and al¬ 
though the contagion of Feminism may reap victims among 
them, the mass remains sane. With the help of their natural 
good sense, they will obey the word of the Lord: “Go and 
Multiply/’ 

Feminism is bound to die out by itself, notwithstanding 
political protection and help, for every little girl that is born 
is an anti-feminist by nature and every young girl to whom 
love beckons is a flower of Femininity. 

The WOMEN, through their propaganda will ring the 
death knell of many a young girl’s happiness, and they en- 
dangetf the happiness of all; but it is up to the girl herself 
to gain her redemption by remaining splendidly true to her 
heart and soul desires. Nothing else matters, nothing else is 
of importance to a young girl, except her feminine calling. 

If a man offers a girl a worthy love,—a love of respect, 
a love of devotion, a love that aims at securing her happiness 
through the normal development of her being, and that girl 
herself feels inclined toward him and has confidence in his 


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will and ability to carry out his purpose, then the time has 
come for her to discard the little ambitions of public success, 
the narrow-minded practicalism of self-support, the fallacy of 
antagonism of man and woman, and then she must embrace 
wholeheartedly and unreservedly the sublime career of woman¬ 
hood. 

No preferences or prejudices of relatives, no sophisms of 
education, no false pride may prevail against the transcendental 
ascension of the maiden to wifehood and motherhood. To be 
a wife and mother is the sacred mission of the woman on 
earth. It is thereby that woman preserves civilization. It is 
a more important event for humanity at large than the making 
or undoing of empires. 

Girls be girls,—nothing less, nothing more; become the 
BIGGEST WOMEN on earth, GOOD AND TRUE WIVES 
TO GOOD AND TRUE HUSBANDS; become the TRI¬ 
UMPHANT WOMEN, the priestesses through whom God 
operates the mystery of life,—the MOTHERS before whom 
king and slave,—soldier and priest,—youth and old age,— 
judge and condemned, bow with respect and admiration. 

Maidens, be not ashamed to admit that the nobleness of 
womanhood is your ambition. Be proud that a worthy man 
wants you to belong to him, entirely and forever, and wants 
you to be the creator of that baby whose little hand brushes 
easily aside the tin-ware like prominence of preposterous 
WOMEN. 

Girls, become what God made you for, for nothing could be 
higher in mankind and civilization: “TRUE WIVES AND 
MOTHERS OF MEN.” 


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THE ANSWER. 

Now, Reader, after this exposition of principles and facts, 
may it not be safely asserted that 

FEMINISM IS THE BOLSHEVISM OF SEX? 

Is not Feminism a collective mental disease originated in 
particular types of deficient womanhood, which, after having 
tried to reach their rightful aims of happiness, and having 
failed, attribute their disappointment to prevailing conditions 
rather than to their own incapacity. 

Hence, discontent and hate ferment in them against the 
supposed wrongs of the natural organization of the family, 
against the rightful appropriation of the wife by her husband, 
and the authority of the father over his children;—envy grows 
against the more favored wives, and the diseased mind becomes 
a public danger. 

Through the influence of repeated propaganda, normal 
people,—good wives and sweet young girls,—become infected 
by doubt and suffer imaginary wrongs. 

Led astray by this delusion, they harm themselves by resist¬ 
ing the natural inclinations of their being; they become ashamed 
of their sex, and join the feminist organizations and clubs, 
where they are paraded as testimonies of the justness of 
feminist revendications. 

The acts of such mentally deficient women are individual 
violations of their natural laws, but when social parasites,— 
politicians and corrupt or ambitious women,—found in this 
force of normal wives, spiteful spinsters and beguiled maidens 
a tool strong enough to overthrow or modify social organization 
in order to further their personal fortune or to cover their 
vices with the pretense of legitimacy, they claimed rights for 


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abnormal people,—for the woman who forsakes husband, 
children and home,—and erected the insanity of isolation and 
self-support of women as the standard by which womanhood 
should be modeled. 

They are now trying to rob the husband of his wife and 
the father of his children,—and subject wife and child to some 
government agency in which Feminists would dominate for the 
satisfaction of their personal benefit, and that, no matter what 
it may cost to the normal and healthy individuals or to the 
Nation at large. 


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APPENDIX. 

An Answer to Some Critics. 

Your opinion on “The Bolshevism of Sex” has been recei¬ 
ved with the greatest pleasure. It indicates that you have 
examined this book carefully and impartially. 

Your judgment is most valuable when you write: “From 
many points of view this book is excellent. It is sound in its 
general conservative tendency, it contains many acute obser¬ 
vations on the psychology of woman, and it has numerous wise 
reflections on many deteriorating influences on woman’s health 
and character. On the other hand, there are other things in the 
book which prevent one from indorsing it unreservedly. It is 
too frank in discussion and recurrent insistence on woman’s 
organs for the general reader, and its reduction of woman’s 
work to the sole function of bearing children leaves out of 
account her many other capabilities and higher purposes.” 

Your criticism shows that I should have given greater 
development and emphasis to some points only slightly touched 
on in the course of this work. 

But I beg to be allowed to take exception to a further 
opinion, that “His statement that the wife is the husband’s 
property is false.” 

The Natural History of the human being shows this appro¬ 
priation to be a fact. It has been a legal statute in all civi¬ 
lizations until the latter started on their decline. The ethics 
of mating collapse if deprived of that fundamental principle, 
—without appropriation the wife would be absolutely free and 
have the right to take herself away from her husband and join 
other men, as often, and in such manner, as she pleased. The 
Scriptures tell us that God made the woman and gave her as 
a companion to Adam. Furthermore, all precepts of Christian- 


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ism regarding the duties of the woman in the state of marriage 
presuppose her to belong to her husband. 

It seemed to me superfluous to define the word “property”, 
as it is understood that the rights of the proprietor are deter¬ 
mined by the nature of the “property”. So, property rights 
differ for a piece of furniture, a house, a farm, a waterway or 
a child, (as is shown clearly in the case of adoption). My 
use of the word “property” should not be taken to have the 
same meaning when applied to a wife as when applied to a 
desk or a table that you may sell, exchange or destroy. The 
comprehension of this word is clearly limited, particularly when 
one reads the chapters on Sexual Respect and Family Moral¬ 
ity. My contention is that a man owns his wife in her ca¬ 
pacity of a wife, not as a saleable or tradeable object, not for 
sensual misuse either,—but he owns her bodily for legitimate 
marital rights and for the bearing of his children,—he owns 
her sentimentally for her love and affection and he owns her 
mentally for her moral support and respect. No other interpre¬ 
tation should be put on the word “property”, for it would not 
be consistent with the arguments advanced in this book. 

My theory that political rights belong exclusively to the 
head of the family unit, which I believe is strongly supported 
by historical facts and by a study of present day human society, 
may at first glance appear strange. The individual would of 
course be deprived of political rights, but this privation would 
be incommensurably compensated by social individual rights 
which are totally ignored in the present national organization. 

This book was so obviously written for the people of the 
world, living in the world and by the world, that the remark 
that “there are passages in the book that need a great deal of 
explanation if they are not to be taken as contrary to the 
Church’s doctrine on celibacy” surprised me much. 

It did not occur to a priest who read the manuscript, nor 
to me, that any part of the book could be construed as con¬ 
trary to the celibacy of the priesthood and religious orders, 


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for it is commonly understood, from a religious viewpoint, 
that one may neglect or suppress bodily functions if it helps 
in the salvation of his soul or in the salvation of his brethren, 
and so there exists indeed, besides priests and religious orders, 
a very limited group of high minded men and women, who un¬ 
der some accidental circumstances or because of a special 
vocation, forego matrimony in order to devote their lives to 
the service of God and humanity. These, of course, in a more 
or less extended degree, make a self-sacrifice of legitimate sat¬ 
isfactions of life, and they are at freedom to do so, although 
they may not expect for their deeds to have special rights 
conferred upon them. 

In no part of the work are these exceptional people men¬ 
tioned in classes of women whose attitude is condemned, so 
they could not be identified with the women referred to in 
Chapter II, Part V. 

Nevertheless it could hardly be said that our unmarried 
business women, salaried workers of organized charities, suf¬ 
frage pioneers, political women, birth control advocates, ac¬ 
tresses and artists, have in foregoing matrimony anything like 
the saving of their souls as an object, or that they put into 
effect superior capabilities or possess nobler purposes than 
those of the MOTHER who bears children, and raises them to 
be healthy and sane men and women. This WORK includes 
all of woman’s capabilities and there can be no nobler purpose 
for worldly people. 

The woman is perfectly free to be a sinner, a higher woman 
or a saint. Nowhere in this study has any limitation been put 
on her liberty of action, nor an enforcement of morality asked 
for, but it advocates the organization of the nation for normal 
people, against the standardization of the womanhood of the 
country according to THE ABNORMALITY OF NON¬ 
SENSICAL WOMEN. 

This work does not exclusively consider the woman from 
the viewpoint of her bodily organs,—the requirements enunci- 


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ated in the chapters on The Higher Woman and The Edu¬ 
cation of the Girl demand of her higher intellectuality and 
morality than most prominent men and women possess. The 
bodily organs of the woman are frankly discussed and referred 
to in this book. That is true, but it is perfectly useless 
to study the woman and pretend to ignore her physical con¬ 
stitution which nevertheless will assert its functions. Circum¬ 
locutions and mental reservations hinder straight thinking, and 
to them may be attributed the numerous fanciful opinions 
expressed nowadays on the women. Philosophy needs to go 
straight to the truth, sometimes brutally. Sophism likes the 
vague and undefined path, because its aim is confusion. 


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